The Cerrejon mine is the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America and one of the largest in the world. It is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange – Anglo American, BHP and Glencore. Workers at the mine have been on strike since...
The dried up bed of the Arroyo Bruno below the diversion, July 2019 Legal Clinic research to protect the rights of a river Indigenous communities threatened by climate change in Colombia had successfully argued in court that a British owned coal mining company should...
On 3 August 2020, LMN and member groups Colombia Solidarity Campaign and TerraJusta, together with allies in Europe and North America, wrote to Cerrejon Coal and its multinational owners Anglo American, BHP and Glencore, to express our support for mine workers’...
Analysis of the 5 May 2020 AGM of Anglo American plc by LMN volunteer Agnes Schim van der Loeff Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the AGMs of some of the biggest mining companies could not happen in their usual format this year. While Rio Tinto still allowed shareholders...
Statement from Sintracarbón (National Union of Workers in the Coal Industry in Colombia) 18 July, 2020 We Say NO to the Shift of Death – Declaration of the Board of Directors of Sintracarbón Yesterday, 17 July, during the meeting of the Board of Directors of our...
