Community rises against Antofagasta in Chile
Photo: Alvaro Badillo RESIDENTS OF LOS CAIMANES, CHILE, REACH 40 DAYS OF MOBILIZATION TO DEMAND THAT MINING MULTINATIONAL ANTOFAGASTA MINERALS COMPLY WITH CHILEAN LAW Eye witness account from Caimanes, Chile, by Elif Karakartal; translation by Ali Sargent. On October...
As 2015 begins, pressures on coal show no sign of ending
Continued use of coal is ecologically unsustainable – but it also looks as though it is economically unsustainable as well. Pressures on coal show no signs of ending Arguably, most of the world’s coal assets are already stranded — doomed by the new global...
Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton in Arizona: copper project in conflict with Apaches and others
In April, LMN hosted Roger Featherstone from the Arizona Mining Reform Coalition when he visited London to address the 2014 Rio Tinto AGM. He was here to call on Rio Tinto, and BHP Billiton as a junior partner in the project, not to go ahead with their plans for the...