Christian Aid Ireland has published a damning report about Cerrejón Coal’s impacts on the communities around its operations. Cerrejón is owend by London-listed multinationals Anglo American, BHP Group and Glencore. The Republic of Ireland’s only coal-fired...
Last month four human rights defenders from Latin America travelled to London to speak truth to power at the British-Australian mining giant’s annual shareholders’ meeting, as part of a week of action, Unmasking BHP. The company announced at its meeting...
At 1.15pm today, representatives from London Mining Network, War on Want and Global Justice Now tried to hand in a letter at BHP’s London office, addressed to the company’s chair Ken MacKenzie, on the fourth anniversary of Brazil’s Samarco tailings...
Today is the fourth anniversary of the Fundão tailings (mine waste) dam disaster in Mariana, a town in the Southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The Fundão dam and the associated iron ore mine, called Samarco, is operated by a mining company of the same name –...
BHP held its London AGM (annual shareholders’ meeting) on Thursday 17 October. We aim to publish a full report and commentary on the AGM in the coming days. For now, we report on what the four participants in our October speaker tour said to the company’s...
