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29 Sep 2011

Author:
London Mining Network [UK]

Public Meeting: BHP Billiton – Dirty Energy [UK]

BHP Billiton is the world’s largest diversified resources company. It made record profits of $23.6 billion over the past year. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange. Many British workers’ pension funds, British banks and insurance companies have investments in it – but most British people have never heard of it…Main speaker: Julio Cesar Gomez, President of FECODEMIGUA, the Federation of Communities Displaced by Mining in La Guajira (Colombia)…Other speakers will talk about BHP Billiton’s coal and uranium mines in other parts of the world. [also refers to Cerrejón (joint venture Anglo American, BHP Billiton, Xstrata)]