Future Smart? COVID19 exposes mining giant Anglo American’s true priorities
Media Release. 4th May 2020. London, UK – On Tuesday 5th May, UK-listed mining giant Anglo American will host its AGM in controversial fashion, in the wake of disturbing revelations about the company’s plans to mine in the Brazilian Amazon and its response to...
LMN and COVID-19
Amadiba Crisis Committee members, Xolobeni, South Africa There has been a huge amount in the mining press recently about the impacts of COVID-19 on the mining industry. In some places, mines are being closed; in others, miners are being isolated on mine sites so that...
Remote control: Rio Tinto’s AGM and ‘shareholder engagement session’, London, 8 April 2020
The UK government’s response to the COVID-19 health crisis has meant that company AGMs are even more controlled by the companies’ Boards and even less accountable than usual. Rio Tinto’s AGM this year was a hole-in-the-corner affair, with the minimum...
Really, Rio Tinto? Resistance goes online
Rio Tinto’s annual general meeting (AGM) on Wednesday 8th April wasn’t your typical three hour sit-down in a room of slightly bored, mostly white middle-aged investors, followed by posh triangle sandwiches and crisps. Nor was there a small but lively crowd...
Communities demand justice from UK mining giant as it holds AGM behind closed doors
As Rio Tinto pours money into mining-affected communities to fight Covid-19, dissident shareholders tell the multinational to clean up its act A coalition of human rights organisations are holding an online week of action to challenge one of the UK’s largest mining...
Rio Tinto ONLINE WEEK OF ACTION!
It’s British-Australian multinational Rio Tinto’s annual shareholder meeting on Wednesday 8th April. We can’t protest it in person, but we can online in solidarity with affected communities. Why are we doing this, especially during these uncertain times? We understand...
Resisting Rio Tinto: clean up your mess!
British-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto is gaining a reputation for not cleaning up its toxic mining mess – in Papua New Guinea, West Papua and Madagascar, to name a few. Most recently, the government of New Zealand threatened the company with legal action for...
Communities demanding redress from Rio Tinto
Representatives from Rio Tinto-affected communities or from supporting organisations from Bougainville, Madagascar and US were going to travel to the UK for a week of action around Rio Tinto’s annual general meeting (AGM). Obviously the global pandemic made this...
Death threats, mining waste, and Covid-19
Dear friends, We at LMN hope that you and your loved ones are safe and well during the current corona virus crisis. We know, however, that some of you are not: those of you who have lost work and income, or who are prevented from leaving your homes to obtain the food...
Bishop of Brumadinho: ‘mining companies have split communities’
In recent weeks, Dom Vicente Ferreira, Catholic Bishop of Brumadinho in Brazil, was in Europe speaking about the continuing impacts of the catastrophic tailings dam collapse there in January 2019, which killed 272 people. The iron ore mine at Brumadinho is owned and...