Using the slogan #PescaSiPetroleoNo, community and environmental leaders, as well as representatives from fishing unions, have this month staged new protests at exploratory drilling for oil off the north Pacific coast. These...
Read MoreThe Ministry of Energy and Mines (Minem) has finally released over US$55 million to address half a century’s legacy of contamination in Block 192. A welcome first step, it will not go far in addressing the problem as a whole....
Read MoreIt is nearly a year since the government launched the so-called ‘Operation Mercury’ in Madre de Dios. The programme was planned as a two-year effort to control illegal gold mining and the abuses to which it leads....
Read MoreA possible agreement between a Brazilian mining company and local communities in Ica affected by a planned mining project is worth watching. The company is Nexa Resources and it is looking to develop the underground mine of...
Read MoreAn end of year article by Francesca García in El Comercio reviews the pending agenda for 2020 in the field of extractives and social conflict The report summarises the views of three people: Rolando Luque, associate for the...
Read MoreBP and Petroperú last week signed six contracts by which BP will conduct pre-exploration activity in the offshore Salaverry basin in waters off the regions of La Libertad and Ancash. The pre-exploration phase will last for two...
Read MoreThe International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) has published an updated version of a manual produced in 2009 that sets out grievance procedures within the mining industry. ICMM is a private sector organisation...
Read MoreAs the year ends, we look back to the visits to London and Brussels of Virginia Pinares and Julia Cuadros during which we highlighted the predicament facing communities in the vicinity of Las Bambas in Apurímac. This is also the...
Read MoreA recent study by the Quebec Institute of Public Health finds alarming levels of harmful heavy metals from samples taken from children in La Oroya and Cerro de Pasco. The study was carried out in 2016 at the request of Red...
Read MorePressure on mining companies has been radically increasing in the last few months in regard to opencast mining. First, the failure of the Brumadinho tailings dam in January, with 300 deaths, brought to a head years of disquiet...
Read MoreCopper and gold mining in Espinar have a long history of discord going back to state ownership under Velasco and before that when mines were in foreign hands. For years, it was Tintaya that dominated the story (later...
Read MoreIn a public declaration directed at the Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM), the Culture Ministry (MINCUL) and other public organizations, PUINAMUDT, the platform of indigenous organisations located in oil block 192, have...
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