PRESS RELEASE: GCM postpones AGM *again*, citing security concerns
9th March 2020, 7.30pm, for immediate release London Mining Network and Phulbari Solidarity Group JOINT PRESS RELEASE GCM Resources have just announced the postponment of their London AGM tomorrow, again. This is the second time that the London-listed company has...
The climate revolution is a feminist one!
Chilean activist and LMN volunteer Javiera Martinez took part in an action with XR in central London today to mark International Women’s Day. They blocked Waterloo Bridge for the action that made the links between climate justice and justice for women around the...
PRESS RELEASE: GCM hastily reschedules AGM
*UPDATE: GCM Resources have CANCELLED their AGM tomorrow. At 5.38pm they released a notice citing ‘security concerns’ again as the reason for cancellation. We will be responding to this in due course.* London Mining Network and Phulbari Solidarity Group...
PRESS RELEASE: New report names top British companies responsible for toxic mining legacies
For immediate release 19/02/20 BHP and Rio Tinto have a long history of extracting minerals then pulling out, leaving devastation in their wake. Climate justice organisation London Mining Network reveals the extent of this in a new report. London Mining Network has...
Christian Aid Ireland slams Cerrejón Coal
Christian Aid Ireland has published a damning report about Cerrejón Coal’s impacts on the communities around its operations. Cerrejón is owend by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP Group and Glencore. The Republic of Ireland’s only coal-fired...
‘It is not drought, it is looting’: the Chilean community taking on Anglo American
Chilean activist Javiera Martinez writes about residents of the town of El Melón, who are occupying a well to protest a British mining company’s diversion of essential drinking water ‘It is not drought, it is looting’ is the slogan that movements in Chile are using in...
‘Wasn’t Mariana enough? Marking one year since Brumadinho
“On 25 January 2019 I lost my father and my friends. Many family members worked and work for mining companies. We have tried to make an inventory of our collective losses but nothing can measure our feelings and our suffering. Everywhere I go I carry with me 272...
PRESS RELEASE: London vigil to mark first anniversary of Brumadinho disaster
For immediate release: 22/01/20 Events around the world are being organised to mark first anniversary of Brumadinho’s catastrophic mining disaster, in the context of a rising culture of corporate impunity in Brazil On 25th January 2019 near the Brazilian town of...
Anniversary of Brazil’s Brumadinho disaster, coal, and greenwashing
Dear friends, Happy New Year (though perhaps it no longer feels very new)! There are two events coming up next week which I urge you to attend if you can: a protest on Monday at the UK-Africa Investment Summit, which promises to be a festival of destructive...
LMN and the Global Tailings Review
After the catastrophic tailings dam collapse at Brazilian mining company Vale’s iron ore mine at Brumadinho on 25 January 2019, the Church of England and Swedish state pension funds started to gather data on existing mine waste tailings dams by sending out a...