Mining victims denounce ‘Genocide legalized by the state’
Residents of traditional communities in the Brazilian Amazon municipality of Barcarena, near the mouth of the Amazon River, say that their subsistence and commercial livelihoods, and their health, have been destroyed by an invasion of mining companies which began in the mid-1980’s. This story is the fifth in a series.
Crimes against Guapinol defenders reflect neglect from Honduran government
'The Government is responsible for these two murders, and Xiomara Castro must provide an explanation,’ declared ERIC-SJ researcher Joaquín Mejía Rivera, in the wake of the killing of two environmental defenders in Guapinol.
Environmental hazards in Chile’s mines
Afshin Rattansi goes underground on how the mining of its resources are linked to environmental disaster, and the London Stock Exchange. ...
El Salvador: the Water Defenders
In The Water Defenders: How Ordinary People Saved A Country from Corporate Greed, Robin Broad and John Cavanagh tell the harrowing, inspiring saga of Salvadorans' fight — and historic victory — to save their water, and their communities, from Big Gold.
Brazil: the companies are ‘killing us bit by bit’
The mine tailings dam disasters in 2015 and 2019 in Minas Gerais, Brazil, killed many and affected thousands more. Members of affected communities came to London in April 2022 to meet with London Mining Network and described how the mining companies are still evading responsibility and failing to pay meaningful compensation.
Brazil: another dam collapse imminent
Situated only 60km from Brumadinho, where a massive tailings dam collapse killed 270 workers and local residents on 25 January 2019, is the small...
What a load of greenwash!
A mining engineer with more than 40 years in the industry challenges the ESG frameworks used by mining companies to greenwash their activities
Lithium: white gold or curse?
A proposal to start large-scale mining for lithium in Cornwall, UK, raises all the same issues as seen in Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. It's a timely reminder that mining is not just a problem for poorer countries.
Brumadinho – one year on
LAB's Tom Gatehouse talks to those affected by recent tailings dams disasters in Brazil
On 25 January last year, a massive tailings dam collapsed at...
Living in the shadow of Amazon tailings dams
Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), the world’s fourth largest bauxite producer, encroached on riverine communities beside the Trombetas River in the Brazilian Amazon in...