Indonesian organisation AEER, coordinated by LMN partner Pius Ginting, has just launched this report into mining waste (tailings) at Grasberg mine, a controversial mine in occupied West Papua, co-owned by British-Australian Rio Tinto and US company Freeport-MacMoRan....
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – 11/04/18 Indonesian mining campaigner visiting London for Rio Tinto AGM calls for company to exit Papua and accountability An Indonesian activist is visiting London from 11-18th April to highlight the human and environmental cost of mining...
A new UNEP report summary “Mine Tailings Storage: Safety Is No Accident” finds mining waste dams threaten people and the environment. An international coalition of non-governmental organizations – London Mining Network, Earthworks, MiningWatch Canada and Amnesty...
The following is a summary attached of the E Comm report http://ec.europa.eu/environment/waste/mining/pdf/report_mining_waste.pdf (E Comm COM(2016) 553 Sept 2016 report to the European Parliament and European Council on on the implementation of Directive 2006/21/EC on...