Last month, LMN got together with friends at Rights and Accountability in Development, MiningWatch Canada and CORE to produce a briefing for investors and equity analysts. The subject was human rights at African Barrick Gold’s North Mara mine in Tanzania. There...
Article provided by AÇÃO ILHÉUS, Brazil 16 March 2014 As already published around the world, Glencore Xstrata could be the possible buyer of Pedra de Ferro ( Bahia – Brazil ) project, owned by scandal-hit miner ENRC. The project involves the construction of a...
By Richard Solly, London Mining Network Co-ordinator (with assistance from Andy Whitmore, LMN Co-chair) Readers of a certain age (i.e. those who are beginning to get a bit long in the tooth, like me) may remember the original version of The Magic Roundabout, in which,...
Regulation, regulation, regulation … 4th March 2014 Richard Solly, the Co-ordinator of London Mining Network (LMN) was one of four civil society representatives called to give testimony today before a Department of Business Innovation and Skills Parliamentary Select...
By Jacob Stringer Have you ever wondered what happens when a big multinational mining company turns up in your small Colombian town with the intention of building a gold mine? A new report produced by a UK-based campaigning group records the experience of local people...
A new report from Platform and the Algeria Solidarity Campaign has criticised the role of oil and gas companies and the UK in financing the military dictatorship in Algeria that has quashed democratic dissent for many decades. In a 2013 report, Amnesty International...
BHP Billiton has been involved with the Inga 3 Dam in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the hope of obtaining electricity for an aluminium smelter. For background to Peter Bosshard’s blog below, see Africa’s Energy Future – Down a Dark Tunnel, NGOs...
Take action: participate in Amnesty’s letter-writing campaign. Máxima Acuña and her family, who are subsistence farmers, are in a dispute with mining company Yanacocha over the ownership of the plot of land where they live in Tragadero Grande, Sorochuco...
In March, European leaders will come together to agree a new EU climate deal. If thousands of us send David Cameron and Nick Clegg a message, they can push for the ambitious action that the world needs. Take action: write to them via the Stop Climate Chaos website.
David Cameron claims that fracking could alleviate fuel poverty, but even his friends at Cuadrilla – the fracking company slated to cash in on the dash for gas – feel fracking’s impact on household bills will be ‘basically insignificant.’ What we do know...
This is a really touching animated presentation, with accompanying text, about gold mining at Rosia Montana in Romania and the struggle against Canadian company Gabriel Resources (whose Romanian subsidiary has offices in London) and an appeal for funds to fight the...
Please take a look at this video about a successful campaign waged by a group of young activists in Chile called Chao Pescao against the Barrancones coal plant. They made a video and started a social media campaign that went viral, got lots of celebrities involved,...
