BHP Billiton — Dirty Energy protests

Cam­paign­ers from Lon­don Min­ing Net­work, Kick Nuclear, Colom­bia Sol­i­dar­i­ty Cam­paign, Lon­don Ris­ing Tide, Occu­py Lon­don and oth­er groups gath­ered out­side and inside Anglo-Aus­tralian min­ing giant BHP Bil­li­ton’s cen­tral Lon­don AGM to protest the com­pa­ny’s record of envi­ron­men­tal dam­age and forced dis­place­ment of indige­nous com­mu­ni­ties in Colom­bia, Aus­tralia, Indone­sian Bor­neo and else­where, due to its extrac­tion of dirty fuels, includ­ing coal and ura­ni­um.

Some of the group lat­er vis­it­ed the Aus­tralian High Com­mis­sion, demand­ing to speak to an offi­cial about BHP’s ura­ni­um min­ing activ­i­ties and explo­ration on abo­rig­i­nal lands in South and West­ern Aus­tralia. The ‘diplo­mat­ic pro­tec­tion’ police were called by the High Com­mis­sion. When the police arrived, the pro­test­ers were ordered to leave the build­ing.

See also the fol­low­ing reports on the AGM and demo here and here.