BHP Billiton's London AGM in the news
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...
Latest update on BHP Billiton/Vale tailings dam disaster in Brazil
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...
Cerrejon Coal: a struggle between a tethered donkey and a tiger
For the last sixteen years, I have been working in support of communities in the province of La Guajira, Colombia, being displaced by the massive Cerrejon opencast coal mine. The mine is owned by London-listed companies Anglo American, BHP Billiton and Glencore....