Dear friends, The world’s biggest mining company, BHP, has announced that it intends to terminate its dual-listed status, with BHP plc incorporated in the UK and BHP Ltd in Australia, and simplify its structure by becoming primarily an Australian company, with...
Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Andrew Hickman, Andy Whitmore, Dina Rui, Roger Featherstone, Roger Moody, Sukhgerel Dugersuren, Yvonne Orengo and Zoe Lujic. Rio Tinto’s London AGM on 9 April 2021 was the first...
To mark Rio Tinto’s 2021 AGM, campaigners from five continents came together to push back against the company’s hollow talk. Rio Tinto says its a force for “human progress”, but around the world its actions tell a different story. Here we...
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...
The UK government’s response to the COVID-19 health crisis has meant that company AGMs are even more controlled by the companies’ Boards and even less accountable than usual. Rio Tinto’s AGM this year was a hole-in-the-corner affair, with the minimum...
