‘Poisonous Tour’ Shames Mining Corporations – On Tuesday 2th November 2017, the London Mining Community, Warfare on Need and The Gaia Basis and group leaders from Uganda, the Philippines and Colombia visited a sequence of mining corporations and financiers of mining.
Though we now not have an Empire, London stays the center of the neo-colonial mining trade the world over, with many mining corporations listed right here. It additionally performs a key position within the financing of mining corporations working the world over. Partially it is a hangover from our colonial heritage however is now primarily due to the convenience of laundering soiled cash via hedge funds and different companies by way of the Metropolis of London.
The protest was timed to coincide with the London Mines and Cash Convention, the place round 2,000 mining firm representatives, traders and financiers have been celebrating their damaging and exploitative actions all over the world.
The ‘Poisonous Tour’ started in Stratton Avenue, near Inexperienced Park station in Mayfair outdoors the workplaces of Harwood Capital LLP who personal 9% of Bluebird Service provider Ventures who’ve plans for an enormous open-pit Batangas Gold Challenge on the island of Luzon within the Philippines. We heard from Clemente Bautista Jr, nationwide coordinator of Kalikasan Folks’s Community, how this is able to be an environmental catastrophe, with wastes from the mine destroying a lot marine life within the Verde Island Passage which has the best focus of shorefish on the earth.
A brief distance additional into Mayfair the protest stopped outdoors the London workplaces of Vedanta, the place Miriam Rose of Foil Vedanta spoke on Vedanta’s horrible report of environmental destruction, air pollution and loss of life in India and Africa, and of their unlawful makes an attempt to get mining permission. In Zambia, the place their copper mine polluted the nation’s main river, Foil Vedanta had uncovered their unlawful avoidance of tax.
A couple of yards away we halted outdoors the workplaces of Glencore UK, the world’s largest mining firm by income. Adam Lee of the IndustriALL International Union which with its associates represents over 50 million employees all over the world informed us of commerce union informed us how this Anglo–Swiss multinational which is listed on the London inventory alternate exploits its employees. Safety stopped the protesters after they tried to enter the the lobby of the workplaces.
Paulson Europe LLP in Jermyn St was the following cease, as they’re a significant investor in AngloGold Ashanti. Colombian activist Camila Méndez talked there concerning the big environmental injury attributable to their La Colosa gold mine in Cajamarca.
Protesters have been stopped within the doorway as they tried to stroll into the lobby of Rio Tinto Zinc on the nook of St James’s Sq.. After a few brief speeches whereas they blocked the doorway there was an extended discuss on the pavement outdoors. An extended-term researcher into their actions informed the group that he was extra hopeful concerning the future actions of RTZ than different mining corporations as they appeared to be trying to develop in much less environmentally damaging methods. He stated this was as a result of that they had been one of many first mining corporations to draw main protests.
Lastly the protest moved out of Mayfair to Carlton Home Terrace on the north aspect of The Mall and the workplaces of Anglo American plc, the place safety locked the doorways as we approached for a protest on the street outdoors. I feel this was the ultimate cease on the tour, though there have been many extra corporations it might have visited, notably across the Metropolis, however it was getting darkish and time for me to go house.
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