Media coverage of the 2017 Lonmin AGM
There was extensive media coverage of this year’s Lonmin AGM. Check out the following: AfricaNews BBC World Service Church Times Daily Mail Guardian Independent Catholic News Media Diversified Neues Deutschland New Internationalist Reuters Telegraph The Citizen...
Data summary of European Commission report
The following is a summary attached of the E Comm report http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/mining/pdf/report_mining_waste.pdf (E Comm COM(2016) 553 Sept 2016 report to the European Parliament and European Council on on the implementation of Directive 2006/21/EC on... Informal Stakeholder Consultation on European Mining Waste Directive
The following are the record of the informal stakeholder consultation on the implementation of the European Mining Waste Directive that took place in the European Parliament. LMN’s Research Associate Richard Harkinson attended, and presented at the meeting:-...
Declaration on the assassination of Aldemar Parra Garcia
Monday, January 23rd 2017 The undersigning organizations condemn the assassination of Aldemar Parra García and express our deepest condolences to his family. Facts On January 7, Aldemar was assassinated by two unidentified gunmen on a motorcycle on the route from El... Demand accountability for the Marikana Massacre! Protest the Lonmin AGM!
Since the police killings of 34 striking mine workers in August 2012, British-South African mining firm, Lonmin, has failed to live up to many of its social commitments to the workers and the survivors of the deadly attack. Join South African Bishop Johannes Seoka...
Ditch Coal Now!
On Wednesday 8 February, join Coal Action Network, Friends of the Earth and London Mining Network for a creative demonstration to demand an end to coal in the UK now! 12 noon – demonstration 10am-6pm public sculpture-making (drop-in) Department of Business, Energy and...
London: the hub of bribery and ill-gotten cash despite rules on transparency
Our friends at RAID (Rights and Accountability in Development) recently published a report called ‘Bribery in its purest form’: Och-Ziff, asset laundering and the London connection. A recent article in the Guardian pointed out that wealthy countries like the UK gain...Assassination of community leader and mining critic in Cesar, Colombia
London Mining Network and member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign deplore the assassination last weeken of community leader Aldemar Parra Garcia in Cesar, Colombia. Aldemar was a critic of coal mining operations in the area. Among the companies mining coal in Cesar...
GCM Resources at Phulbari: perseverance or perversity?
Photo: Phulbari Solidarity Group Report on the GCM Resources AGM, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1, Thursday 15 December 2016 by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network GCM Resources has only one active project, the Phulbari coal project: this is a plan for an...
Energy company reps won't listen to community concerns at Cerrejon, Colombia
House at the resettled community of Tamaquito By Emma Banks, University of Tennessee, currently resident in La Guajira On November 29, three delegates from the German Company EnBW, which buys coal from Colombia including from Cerrejón, came to La Guajira. Johannes...