We Are Bruno: Citizens Caught Between An Absentee State And A State-Like Corporation During Water Conflicts In La Guajira, Colombia Emma Banks, Department of Anthropology, Vanderbilt University ABSTRACT: In natural resource frontiers, local communities are on the...
House at the resettled community of Tamaquito By Emma Banks, University of Tennessee, currently resident in La Guajira On November 29, three delegates from the German Company EnBW, which buys coal from Colombia including from Cerrejón, came to La Guajira. Johannes...
By Richard Solly, LMN Co-ordinator, with assistance from Andrew Hickman, Andy Whitmore, Paul Robson and Richard Harkinson This year’s BHP Billiton plc AGM was held on Thursday 20 October at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre. Outside, a vibrant protest...
There was a great deal of media coverage of this year’s BHP Billiton AGM in London, including plenty of quotes from LMN’s visitors from Brazil, Colombia and Indonesia. In advance of the AGM, the New Internationalist published Life in the shadow of the...
An official report into the Samarco Tailings Dam failure in Brazil has now been released. This is a full and comprehensive investigation that needs detailed explanation, undertaken by a highly credible panel. Samarco is jointly owned by BHP Billiton (jointly listed in...
