11 months old Usha says NO to Coal Mine, GCM receives warning at AGM By Raaj Manik OFFICIAL NOTICE to GCM RESORUCES FROM PHULBARI PROTESTERS AND PEOPLE Effective Immediately Friday, 18 December at 10:30am|4 Hamilton Place | London W1J 7BQ This is to notify the London-based company, Global Coal Management Resources Plc., formerly known as Asia Energy, is coming …
Action Demo in London to Save PHULBARI & Green-Farm Land Friday, 18 December at 10:30am, 4 Hamilton Place, London W1J 7BQ (nearest tube station Hyde Park Corner) In the month of the climate summit #COP21, when climate protests erupted across the globe seeking climate justice, a London-based AIM-listed multinational company, Global Coal Management Resources Plc. , announced its AGM to …
Statement by National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Natural Resources, Power, Port By Rumana Hashem In response to the latest statement issued by Bangladesh-India Friendship Power Company regarding Rampal Power Plant, the Convener of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Natural Resources, Power and Port, Engr. Sheikh Muhammad Shahidullah and Member Secretary Prof. Anu Muhammad jointly issued a statement. It …
Victory of Phulbari Once Again! The UK government has published a statement yesterday that highlights the fierce opposition to British company GCM Resources’ plans for a massive open cast coal mine in Phulbari, north-west Bangladesh. The statement notes that protestors are “calling strikes, blockading roads and occupying the company’s local offices”. The statement by the UK National Contact Point also …
By Raaj Manik It was Phulbari Day on Thursday. It was the day to commemorate mass protests that prevented a UK-based mining company, Global Coal Management PLC, from building a large-scale open-pit coal mine in Phulbari in north-west Bangladesh. Nine years ago, on 26th August in 2006, three brave protesters were shot dead in the mass protest that took place …
Another day of victory for Phulbari, another day of loss for Global Coal Management On Sunday, 23 August, 2015 Bangladesh’s state minister for energy and mineral resources stated that there is no hope for any mining company to extract coal from the coal deposits of Northwest Bangladesh in Phulbari. In a published report yesterday, the country’s national daily newspapers reported …
On 3rd August 2015, the world has witnessed another successful year of global actions against notorious mining company Vedanta. Monday’s eight global protests against Vedanta was a very successful day in London and around India and Afrika. The London AGM of Vedanta 2015 was disturbed by the drumming and chanting outside and questions about pollution in Zambia, illegal mining in …
On Saturday, 25 April, A mass action held in Germany, with over 6000 people coming together to create a 7.5 km human chain that passed through deserted villages in western Germany’s Rhineland to the open cast Garzweiler coal mine owned by the German utility company RWE. The chain is to protest RWE’s planned expansion of the mine and passed through …
SENDOU COAL POWER PLANT COMPLAINT AGAINST NYKOMB SYNERGETICS FOR NON COMPLIANCE WITH THE OECD GUIDELINES FOR MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISES Lumière Synergie pour le Développement (LSD) and Takkom Jerry Plyvalence Culturelle et Environnmentale have filed complaints at the Swedish National Contact Point (NCP) against the company Nykomb Synergetics AB, which has contracted with the government of Senegal in 2009 for the construction …
Christine Haigh wrote about how UK’s National Contact Point failed to hold corporations responsible for unethical business in Bangladesh and elsewhere Article is Reproduced from The Guardian Global Development Professional Network A British company plans to build a huge coal mine, stating in its plans that it says will displace more than 40,000 people. It will destroy over 14,000 acres …
