Nuclear power is sometimes presented as though it were clean, or a benign way of tackling climate change. There is a lot of information on our website about why this is not so. And here’s a video where Native American Lakota and Dine people talk about the...
Take action: sign WDM’s petition. Open pit coal mines are responsible for vast destruction and forced displacements of whole communities in the developing world. Coal is also a major contributor to climate change. The problems are exacerbated by the UK financial...
This blog post by Andy Whitmore originally appeared on the PIPLinks website. On 30th January, the relatively minor Australian ‘miner’ Indophil released their quarterly report for the three months ending 31 December 2013. Such standard reporting fare hardly registers...
In this article, Ali Sargent, who used to volunteer for London Mining Network, provides an update on London-listed Antofagasta’s activities in Chile. London Mining Network has supported opponents of the company’s activities at Caimanes. This article was...
London Mining Network has just launched a new-look website. The new layout is intended to make it easier to use for people who do not know quite where to begin. So we have added a ‘Getting Started’ page with some basic building blocks and pointers to...
LMN network member the Gaia Foundation has released Wake Up Call, a short animation unpacking the lifecycle of electronics, the system that drives this, and the impact that our grave modern addiction is having on Earth. Award-winning animator Steve Cutts, who rose to...
LOOSE ANTI OPENCAST NETWORK press release, 13 January 2014 PLEA TO MAKE COAL A ‘SPECIAL CASE’ The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoE Scotland) are two of the groups who are supporting the request being made by the Loose...
Environment Minister Veerappa Moily has decided not to allow the Vedanta Group to mine the Niyamgiri Hills for bauxite, the raw material that it needs for its Rs 4,500-crore alumina plant at Lanjigarh, ministry officials said. The decision will be conveyed to the...
Stop using gold and other metals from irresponsible and large scale open pit mining operations, such as Rio Tinto for the symbols of the Olympic Games: the medals. Sign the petition at...
A new global movement of mutual support has been set up among communities opposed to mining. See http://www.yestolifenotomining.org/ where you can sign on to the movement’s declaration.
The mine lies like a scar across a bloody face. Guava village sits in a remote area in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea (PNG), above a copper mine which closed 25 years ago. Resistance to the Rio Tinto-owned pit exploded in the late 1980s. Human rights abuses were...
Pressure continues being applied on the Provincial Government of Marinduque to settle in their case against Barrick Gold for the historic pollution caused as a result of the hugely-polluting Marcopper mine. The ‘take it or leave it’ US$20-million settlement...
