Press Release by Down to Earth and London Mining Network London, Tuesday 22nd October 2013 The board of controversial mining giant BHP Billiton is set to be slammed at its AGM by an Indonesian activist over seven coal concessions collectively covering an area of more...
An indigenous woman from La Guajira in the north of Colombia has travelled directly from the continuing blockade of a controversial coal mine, directly to London to attend the AGM of BHP Billiton, the company that co-owns the Cerrejón mine. On October 15, more than...
On the 30th of September, 2013, Adelina Gómez Gaviria was gunned down by paramilitaries in the small township of Almaguer, department of Cauca, Colombia. Her eldest son, aged 13, was wounded in the attack. The 36-year-old mother of three was returning home after a...
After weeks of renewed negotiation between Cerrejon Coal and eight farming families of African descent at the village of Old Roche in the province of La Guajira, Colombia, an agreement has been reached allowing the families to relocate to a new site next year....
Why this is important Social movements, environmentalists, and independent researchers denounce the violation of human rights as well as social, cultural and environmental irreversible impacts caused by the multinational mining company Anglo Ferrous Minas-Rio (a...
19 October 2013 Earlier this month, Brazilian environmentalists received some good news about ENRC´s Porto Sul project in a protected Atlantic forest in Ilhéus, Bahia state. One piece of news is official: after a conduct adjustment term (TAC) signed between the Bahia...
On the eve of Dirty Energy Month, activists from LMN member group WDM descended upon a branch of HSBC bank in the heart of the Square Mile. They cordoned off an area outside the bank with climate criminal hazard tape and informed curious passers-by of the bank’s...
First, the World Development Movement backs local opposition by calling on UK banks to cease financing the destruction. Second, an alliance of Central Kalimantan organisations demands the cancellation of plans for a rail network in Central Kalimantan to support an...
A campaign to persuade investors to take their money out of the fossil fuel sector is growing faster than any previous divestment campaign and could cause significant damage to coal, oil and gas companies, according to a study from the University of Oxford. See...
In a battle that will be a proxy for the political brawl in Canberra and elsewhere between business, climate change believers and the Abbott government, BHP Billiton, the world’s biggest miner, has told shareholders to reject a noted climate change activist who...
A displaced Colombian indigenous group has shut down BHP’s Cerro Matoso, the world’s no. 2 ferronickel mine, with protests. The Zenu people started protesting one week ago, and blocked road access to the site on Wednesday, bringing operations to a halt....
AN Aboriginal elder has lost a protracted court bid to block the $30 billion expansion to the Olympic Dam copper, uranium and gold mine in South Australia. Kevin Buzzacott first took his case to the Federal Court in early 2012, claiming then federal Environment...
