PHULBARI DAY VIGIL TURNS INTO HEATED DEMO By Paul Dudman Friday the 26th August, marked a decade of halt to plans by an AIM-listed British company, Global Coal Resources Management (GCM), who want to build a massive open cast coal mine by forcibly displacing 130,000 people in Phulbari, northwest Bangladesh. A four day long Commemoration for victims of Phulbari …
Celebrating 10 years of Halt to Open Cast Mining, Commemorating the lives of brave Villagers What? RED Vigil at London Stock Exchange When? 11am to 1pm on Friday, 26 August 2016 Where? London Stock Exchange HQ for International Trading , 10 Paternoster Square, London EC4M 7LS (nearest tube station: St Paul’s) Find Map Friday, the 26th of August marks …
The Independent news on Barapukuria reproduced below by Raaj Manik Wednesday, 19 November 2014 Author / Source: SHAHNAJ BEGUM The authorities of the Barapukuria Coal Mine Company (BCMC) have rejected the feasibility study report of the Institute of Water Modelling (IWM) on open-pit mining at Barapukuria North, as it did not match the study’s “terms of reference (TOR)”. “The study …
From the London Mining Network website: Anger and honour outside the GCM Resources AGM Demonstrators from a number of groups gathered outside GCM Resources’ Annual General Meeting in London yesterday. The event was organized by the UK branch of National Committee to Protect Oil-Gas-Mineral Resources and Port-Power of Bangladesh (‘UK Committee’) with the support of other organizations. Demonstrators chanted slogans calling …
Coal play: inside the GCM Resources AGM, 20 December 2012 Read the full report on the London Mining network website at: http://londonminingnetwork.org/2012/12/coal-play-inside-the-gcm-resources-agm-20-december-2012/ Report and reflection by Richard Solly, London Mining Network Yesterday was nearly the shortest day, and the weather in London was heavy, grey and wet, and inside the GCM Resources AGM everyone felt gloomy. Company Chairman Gerard …
