by Richard | Nov 17, 2020 | News
By London Mining Network researcher Paul Robson A Barmecide Feast is a pretend or illusory act of generosity; and the beneficiary is supposed to be grateful for the fake generosity. It comes from a story in The Arabian Nights in which a prince invites a poor, starving...
by Richard | Nov 13, 2020 | Monthly bulletin
Dear friends, I hope you are all surviving the continued difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We have recently published a major new report, Martial Mining, about the links between mining and militarism. We have also revised our popular education board game...
by Richard | Nov 12, 2020 | News
Wednesday, November 11, 2020 Press Release from the Committee of Defenders of the Territory of the Indigenous Reservation of Provincial and Jose Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective. (Read original Spanish text here.) Cerrejon Coal Mine lies and act in a...
by Richard | Nov 10, 2020 | News
This is a translation of an article which appeared in Estado de Minas Gerais on 9 November 2020 The judgement in this case can be read here. LMN is dismayed by this further barrier to justice for the huge number of people affected by the Samarco disaster, a disaster...
by Saul | Nov 5, 2020 | News, Press Releases
Key points The Fundão dam at the Samarco mine (owned by Vale & BHP), Mariana, Minas Gerais, Brazil, collapsed on 5 November 2015. 20 people died, 3 villages were destroyed and over 600km of waterways were polluted with toxic mine waste. The aftermath of this...
