Honouring the dead by continuing to demand justice; and BHP to cut and run from London
Dear friends, The world’s biggest mining company, BHP, has announced that it intends to terminate its dual-listed status, with BHP plc incorporated in the UK and BHP Ltd in Australia, and simplify its structure by becoming primarily an Australian company, with...
BHP will not be able to extract more water from the Lagunillas aquifer in Chile due to the negative impact it has generated
by Javiera Martinez BHP has two major mines in Chile, the Escondida mine and Pampa Norte. Pampa Norte consists of two wholly owned operations: Spence and Cerro Colorado. Both mines are in the Atacama Desert and both have severely depleted local water resources ...
Tabaco: 20 years since eviction and still no justice
Residents of Tabac standing in the ruins of their houses, October 2001 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network On 9 August 2001, the residents of the village of Tabaco in La Guajira, Colombia, were violently evicted from their land and their village was...