Mining Hazards: Occupational Diseases in a Post-Covid World
…accidents and lung diseases. Occupational lung diseases such as silicosis take up to ten years to show its symptoms. By the time the symptoms manifest, they are already deadly. Silicosis…
London Mining Tour – The Audio
…mining activities is threatening the ecology of local glaciers. Recently the company has been accused of exploiting migrant workers and of making miners ill with silicosis. This part of the…
PRESS RELEASE: Alternative awards ceremony to turn spotlight on mining industry
…2018 for working conditions that led to their silicosis, and British-Australian Rio Tinto for Innovation in Sustainability, which has cut and run from its mining operations in Grasberg, Bougainville and…
New report on climate justice and post-extractivism
…with Anglo American via class-action suits – a tool through which the poor and vulnerable can seek redress. First it was over the lung disease silicosis; now it’s lead poisoning…
The rush to mine an ocean, and the struggle to save a river
…real climate changers: Big Oil (and Big Mining) must be taken down 6) Johannesburg court approves $353 million silicosis settlement 7) News about BHP 8) Mining Executives Split on Who…