Anglo American

British mining companies face challenge on unjust practices

Kailash — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:23:45 +0100

Representatives of communities in Colombia, West Papua and the USA are in London to challenge the claims of two of Britain’s biggest mining companies that their operations are sustainable and fair.

Alaska Natives try to halt proposed Pebble Mine

Kailash — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:30:56 +0100

Reporting from Seattle — It has always been a match made in peril: One of the biggest copper and gold mines in the world perched in the watershed above Bristol Bay, Alaska — the last, best refuge for millions of Pacific wild salmon.

The proposed Pebble Mine would dwarf all the others operating in the Alaskan wilderness and generate up to 9 billion tons of ore, most of which would have to be sifted and disposed of near the ponds and streams that feed into Bristol Bay.

It also would generate hundreds of jobs in troubled southwestern Alaska, and as much as $300-billion worth of copper and

Limpopo Community Pickets against Angloplat's Suing Richard Spoor!

Kailash — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:32:02 +0000

Community members from Limpopo will picket outside the Pretoria High Court on Monday, 15 Feb 2010. The community members have recently filed a legal case challenging Anglo Platinum’s expansion onto their land. Within 2 weeks of the legal case filing, their attorney, human rights lawyer Richard Spoor was set to appear at trial due to a lawsuit against him by Anglo Platinum and Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Minerals.

Limpopo Communities Demonstrate Against Mining Without Consent!

Kailash — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:20:51 +0000

Note: All of the below activities in Limpopo are underway while Richard Spoor is tied up in court thanks to a defamation case against him filed by Anglo Platinum (a target of some of the actions listed below) and African Rainbow Minerals.

Limpopo, South Africa – The community of Sekiming, supported by Jubilee Mokopane will be resorting to rolling mass action to stop Anglo Platinum and the Department of Basic Education from relocating the Seritarita High School to another village.

Forest reserves in Ghana must be protected from mining, says cardinal

Kailash — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:19:45 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Mining companies must be blocked from extracting minerals from Ghana’s few remaining forest preserves, said the head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

The former archbishop of Cape Coast, Ghana, Cardinal Peter Turkson, said he recently wrote a letter to Ghana’s president, John Atta Mills, urging him “to refuse to give in to a multinational company that is asking permission to start mining in one of the few remaining forest preserves” in Ghana.

Christians hold mining companies to account at their AGMs

Kailash — Mon, 10 May 2010 11:22:09 +0100

London Mining Network member groups — including Christian ethical investment watchdogs, such as the Ecumenical Council for Corporate Responsibility (ECCR) – were well represented at last week’s London AGMs of mining giants Rio Tinto and Anglo-American. At the Rio Tinto AGM on 15 April, they were able to raise a number of concerns, from the health impacts of uranium mining in Namibia to indigenous rights undermined in many Rio Tinto mining projects.

Wayuu women in Colombia ask UN Permanent Forum to act

whit — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:10:59 +0100

In July 2010, the Fuerza de Mujeres Wayuu, an indigenous women’s organisation, created by and composed of members of the Wayuu community in Colombia, presented a report to the United Nations’ Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII), denouncing the multiple forms of human rights violations that Wayuu women experience due to their gender and because they belong to an indigenous group fighting for the recognition of their land rights in Colombia.

The report highlights that Wayuu community members, especially women, experience threats towards their physical integrity and their cultura

Protest at Anglo's Alaskan quest

Kailash — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:21:13 +0000

Alaska’s wilderness is rich in extractable metals and minerals but mining them could destroy the state’s wildllife

Fifty jewellers with billions of pounds in sales and stores around the world have pledged to boycott Anglo American’s planned Pebble project in Alaska, saying they will not use gold from the proposed mine as it threatens Bristol Bay, the world’s most important fishing ground for wild sockeye salmon.

Anything from 10 million to more than 30 million sockeye – the third most abundant species of Pacific salmon – are caught each year during the span of a few weeks of intensiv

Trial will address whether exploration of Pebble was legal

whit — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 11:52:00 +0000

A civil trial that began Monday calls into question the legality of much of the work done over the past two decades to study the massive Pebble copper and gold prospect in Southwest Alaska

The state Superior Court case pits state regulators against a coalition of nine village Native corporations opposed to the proposed mine in the Bristol Bay region, plus several others, including Vic Fischer, a state constitutional delegate, and Bella Hammond, the widow of former Gov.

"Whoever Opposes Mining is Seen as a Terrorist"-Wikileaks on the US and Peru

Kailash — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:50:07 +0000

A Wikileaks cable reveals the US Embassy in Lima, Peru, identified Indigenous activists and tracked the involvement of Bolivian President Evo Morales, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Bolivia Ambassador Pablo Solon, prominent Quechua activist Miguel Palacin Quispe and community leaders.

Since the writing of this cable, the bonds with Native Americans and First Nations have grown stronger in the struggles for justice. Bolivian President Morales and Ambassador Solon were in the forefront of the Indigenous global climate change efforts in 2010.