Antofagasta AGM 2018: Half-answers to very few questions
Report on the Antofagasta AGM, London, Wednesday 23 May 2018 by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Chairman’s address Chairman Jean-Paul Luksic said that it was a pleasure to be here in London with their shareholders. I can’t say I felt the...
London event, 8 June 2018: Carnival for Water – Life – Territory in Colombia
Picket outside Colombian embassy in solidarity with environmental defenders Carnival for Water – Life – Territory 8 June from 3:30pm – 5pm 3 Hans Crescent London SW1X 0LN Nearest tube: Knightsbridge station Let’s stand with Colombians who...
Open letter on Berkeley's impending move to London Stock Exchange
AIM regulation London Stock Exchange Cc Financial Conduct Authority Re Berkeley Energia We are concerned with the potential significance of the recently announced moves of the AIM registered company Berkeley to seek full LSE listing on the London Stock Exchange and...National Alliance of People's Movements condemns killings of anti-Sterilite protesters
On 22 May, nine people were killed in Tuticorin, Southern India, during protests demanding closure of a Sterlite copper plant over pollution concerns. Residents of Tuticorin town have been demanding closure of the London-listed Vedanta mining company’s copper... Bribery, corruption surrounds Antofagasta ahead of AGM
It is annual general meeting season for the many London-listed mining companies enjoying the spoils of extractive operations in mostly global majority countries such as Brazil, SouthAfrica, Colombia and Chile. It is when suits and ties file into conference venues and...
Renewable energy, and class actions
Dear friends, Lawyers have been busy recently. BHP is facing a class action suit by shareholders over the Samarco tailings dam disaster in 2015. Zenú Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Cordoba, Colombia, have won a legal case against London-listed BHP...
VIDEO: We demand justice for Marikana
In March 2018, Community leader Thumeka Magwangqana, lawyer Andries Nkome and Reverend Johannes Seoka travelled to London to attend mining company Lonmin’s Annual general meeting, that was held on 15 March. In the AGM, they asked uncomfortable questions to the...
County Durham residents take direct action against new opencast
Local residents block potential opencast coal site risking arrest to protect their community This morning (15/05/18) two Durham residents living just 300m from the controversial Bradley opencast coal extraction, blocked the gates to the work site for three hours,...
Smiling, frowning, and elephants in the room: the 2018 Anglo American AGM
Report on the Anglo American AGM 8 May 2018 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network With assistance from Ana Bolena Chamie, Andy Whitmore, Benjamin Hitchcock, Paul Robson, Seb Ordonez and Sunit Bagree. Introduction 1. This was the first AGM presided over...
Death threats against critics of Anglo American's Minas-Rio project in Brazil
On the eve of Anglo American’s 2018 AGM on 8 May, threats continue against critics of its Minas Rio iron ore mine in Brazil. At last year’s AGM representatives of the Churches and Mining Network from Brazil revealed that threats had been made against the...