by Richard | Dec 22, 2020 | Monthly bulletin
Dear friends, We at London Mining Network send you good wishes for Christmas and the New Year. May 2021 be considerably better than 2020! The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), Co-Convenors of the Global Tailings...
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 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...
by Richard | Nov 4, 2020 | News
Press release from Caritas Minas Gerais, translated by London Mining Network On the fifth anniversary of Brazil’s biggest socio-environmental crime, projections in several cities of the country and actions in social networks denounce the slowness of the...
