London Mining Network comment on mining waste disaster in Brazil
The catastrophic spill from Brazilian company Vale’s Brumadinho mining waste dam in Minas Gerais state is the second massive waste dam collapse in Brazil in recent years. The last one was at Mariana, in the same state, in November 2015, at the Samarco iron ore mine...
Families occupy Cerrejon mine in Colombia to demand their rights
On Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 50 people from the community of Roche staged a non-violent occupation of part of the vast Cerrejon coal mine – owned by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP and Glencore – to demand respect for their rights as people of...
The sound and the fury: yet another GCM AGM
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network I suspect that GCM Resources management thought that if they held their AGM this year on 28 December, deep in the heart of the Christmas-New Year break, protesters would stay away and they could have a quiet...
Protest against GCM Resources at its AGM on 28 December
Our friends at Phulbari Solidarity Group and Committee to Protect Resources of Bangladesh, UK branch, are planning a protest at the AGM of GCM Resources, which continues lobbying to be allowed to construct a huge opencast coal mine at Phulbari in northwestern...
London Mining Network submits evidence to UK Parliamentary inquiry
The UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Select Committee is currently conducting an inquiry called ‘Global Britain and South America’. London Mining Network has submitted evidence on the impact of some London-listed mining companies on communities and...
Coal, climate change, and corruption
Dear friends, Supporting communities We’ve had another busy year at London Mining Network. Between us all, we’ve welcomed representatives of mining-affected communities in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Finland, Indonesia, Peru, the Philippines, South Africa,...
Two activists at the AGM of a 'Junior' mining company: a 'Dud' and a 'Borderline Fruitcake'
Art work: Clara Atkinson, artist-activist Back in the summer, friends of ours from organisations in Spain attended the London AGM of Atalaya. Elena Solis, from Ecologistas en Accion, has written some reflections on the experience – which was not a pleasant one!...
Fighting mining injustice in Latin America and South Africa
Dear friends, We have had a very busy couple of months at London Mining Network, and many of our friends have been busy too, as you’ll see below. This mailout includes news of our speaker tour around the Annual General Meeting of BHP in London last month,...
"You have failed us": report on the London AGM of BHP, 17 October 2018
Full report on the AGM by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network 1. There is a webcast of the introductory speeches by Chairman Ken MacKenzie and CEO Andrew Mackenzie at https://edge.media-server.com/m6/p/gesyeeo5 (registration is necessary). BHP no longer... Three years of mud and struggle
For the third anniversary of the Samarco tailings dam disaster, our friends in the Movement of People Affected by Dams in Brazil have issued a declaration: From the river to the sea, they will not silence us: 3 years of mud and struggle.