Each year, London Mining Network takes the opportunity presented by the major mining companies’ Annual General Meetings to ask them the questions they don’t want to answer. While the executives are more than happy to talk about their profit margins and...
The issues raised around the BHP AGM by Angelica Ortiz and Luisa Rodriguez from Colombia were well covered by BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight, RTTV’s Going Underground, The Ecologist, Counterpunch (reposted from The Ecologist) and Independent Catholic...
“A terrible tragedy… we are desperately sorry…” The BHP Billiton plc AGM 19 October 2017 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network This year, London Mining Network and our friends at Colombia Solidarity Campaign, Society of St Columban and War...
Colombian riot police carry out forced eviction at Roche, La Guajira, Colombia, on 24 February 2016, so that the Cerrejon coal mine can expand. In late February, a delegation of Church investors from several countries visited coal mining regions in the provinces of...
Members of indigenous Wayuu communities recently blocked the railway carrying coal from the Cerrejon mine (a joint venture of BHP Billiton, Glencore and Anglo American) to the export port on the coast. The protest was violently attacked by police. The protest came in...
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