For a new constitution making Chile a sovereign state not subordinated to foreign powers By Chilean authors Javiera Martinez and Fernando Toro, and Andy Higginbottom Before the social explosion in Chile in October 2019, the country was immersed in discussing the...
Read a new report by Spanish grassroots organisation Ecologistas en Accion, Speculative mining in Spain. In the last five years Spain has seen a large increase of new open pit mining projects. This acceleration has been justified by the need for minerals and scarce...
Phulbari Solidarity Group PRESS RELEASE 17th December 2019 For immediate release British mining company GCM Resources has postponed tomorrow’s London AGM due to security risk from protests. In Phulbari, Bangladesh, protests today blocked roads demanding the...
Phulbari Solidarity Group PRESS RELEASE 16th December 2019 For immediate release See our latest press release detailing news of the postponed AGM and demo Protesters in London and Bangladesh oppose AGM of GCM Resources Plc Loud protests will be held at the AGM of AIM...
Dear friends, We have a bumper newsletter for you this time as it has been a while since we sent you the usual roundup of mining news. Remember that we send out news almost daily on Twitter, sharing interesting articles from the mining press and news of community...
In the second year of LMN’s BHP Witness project, we conducted two workshops at Kingston University with first year students around the annual shareholders’ meeting of mining giant BHP, in October. The first was an introduction to the issues – what is BHP, who are the...
Cerrejon, an opencast coal mine in the north east of Colombia, is the largest coal mine in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. Cerrejon is owned by Carbones del Cerrejón – made up of three London-listed companies: Anglo American, BHP and Glencore. Over...
Environmental campaigners will present alternative awards including the ‘ruthless destroyer award’ to mining executives as they arrive at London’s prestigious ‘Mines and Money’ Gala Dinner in London this Tuesday. The awards will seek to highlight the struggles of...
Last month four human rights defenders from Latin America travelled to London to speak truth to power at the British-Australian mining giant’s annual shareholders’ meeting, as part of a week of action, Unmasking BHP. The company announced at its meeting...
Report by Diana Salazar and Richard Solly with assistance from Benjamin Hitchcock, Glen Mpufane, Liz Umlas, Paul Robson and Seb Ordonez. 1. As a lively demonstration against BHP continued outside the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, the company’s AGM...
At 1.15pm today, representatives from London Mining Network, War on Want and Global Justice Now tried to hand in a letter at BHP’s London office, addressed to the company’s chair Ken MacKenzie, on the fourth anniversary of Brazil’s Samarco tailings...
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Fundão tailings (mine waste) dam disaster in Mariana, a town in the Southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The Fundão dam and the associated iron ore mine, called Samarco, is operated by a mining company of the same name –...
