by Elif Karakartal and Ximena Blanco On Monday 9 March 2015, the Tribunal in the town of Vilos ordered the demolition of the Mauro tailings (toxic waste) dam at the Minera Los Pelambres copper mine in Chile. Minera Los Pelambres is owned by London-listed mining...
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...
The Cerrejon coal mine in Colombia By Ewa Jasiewicz This blog first appeared on Union Solidarity International at https://usilive.org/coal-miners-against-coal/. Freddy Lozano leads a union of coal miners who are against coal mining. Let me break that down for you....
(Original Spanish version here) It is altogether rather easy and convenient for the Colombian government, and institutions like the Ministry of Environment and Sustainable Development, to attribute the drought being experienced in much of the country to El Niño and...
On 21 May, London-listed Chilean mining company Antofagasta plc held its Annual General Meeting in London, at which it presented its annual report. The report is interesting for what it does NOT say as well as for what it does. The company’s subsidiary Minera...
