Last month, London Mining Network and friends hosted two representatives of Colombian coal mine workers’ union Sintracarbon, who organise workers at the Cerrejón mine, owned by Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore. Christine Haigh of LMN member group Global...
Mine workers from the Sintracarbon union at the Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia were in Britain last month for the Anglo American AGM, the Scottish Trade Union Congress meeting and meetings of IndustriALL global mine workers’ union. Sintracarbon is supporting...
Report on the Anglo American AGM, Thursday 23 April 2015 by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Company pressed on climate issues but puts its faith in technological fixes rather than pulling out of coal South African mine workers’ union NUM calls...
by Malcolm Spaven, Chairperson, Scottish Opencast Communities Alliance Longannet, Scotland’s sole remaining coal-fired power station, will almost certainly close at the end of March 2016. That was the message from evidence given by power station owners Scottish Power...
Pius Ginting (middle), a community and environmental campaigner from Indonesia, stayed with the Jesuit Clapham Community and took part in the Dirty Coal Tour organised by the London Mining Network. Photo: Green Jesuit By Henry Longbottom, SJ, a member of...
