Colombia Solidarity Campaign Launches Report "LA COLOSA: A Death Foretold"
LMN member organisation Colombia Solidarity Campaign has published a report about La Colosa, an AngloGold Ashanti gold mining project in Colombia. Click on image for more.
Chairman of GCM Resources offered Jobseeker’s Allowance claim form by concerned shareholder
Report on the GCM Resources AGM, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1, Wednesday 4 December 2013 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 opencast coal mine in north...Activists protest mining industry's harmful impact on women
Photo: Siobhan Carleton-Green As a glittering crowd gathered in central London for a champagne reception honouring women in mining on Tuesday night, activists held a vigil to honour women they said had suffered human rights abuses at the hands of the industry. The...High Court orders African Barrick Gold to stop suing Tanzanian villagers
British company fails in bid to launch rival court action against villagers who are suing in England for deaths and injuries at the company’s Tanzanian mine See http://www.leighday.co.uk/News/2013/December-2013/High-Court-orders-African-Barrick-Gold-to-stop-sui.“Women in Mining” event challenged by “Women resisting Mining” !
Press release from London Mining Network and the Gaia Foundation Tuesday 3 December 2013 An event in London this evening promoting women in the mining sector is being challenged by organisations and individuals highlighting inspirational women from around the world...Tanzanian villagers claim abuse of legal process by African Barrick Gold
Law firm Leigh Day will go to the High Court today (Tuesday 3 December) to ensure an injunction remains in place against London-based African Barrick Gold (ABG) to prevent the company from what lawyers have alleged was an abuse of the English court process. Leigh Day...UK Parliamentary Committee lambasts FCA for lax regulation of ENRC
U.K. lawmakers criticized the Financial Conduct Authority for allowing Kazakh mining company ENRC Corp. to sell shares on the London Stock Exchange in 2007, when there was alleged evidence of corruption, and for permitting the company to delist its shares on Monday...Coal, cash and climate change – to invest or not to invest?
Last-minute deal saves fractious UN climate talks UN climate talks in Poland ended with delegates reaching a compromise on how to fight global warming.After 30 hours of deadlock, they approved a pathway to a new global climate treaty in Paris in 2015. See...BHP Billiton: Second AGM but apparently no second thoughts
BHP Billiton’s Australian AGM was dominated by climate change, but uranium and Indigenous People’s rights also featured. Click on image for more.