BHP Billiton: Dirty Energy

Wendesday 19 October 2011

7pm - 9pm
Houses of Parliament
Room 1, Upper Corridor
St Stephen's Gate (the main entrance to Parliament)

The London Mining Network, of which War on Want is a member, is hosting this public meeting which exposes the displacement of communities around the world as a result of the operations of multinational BHP Billiton.

BHP Billiton is the world's largest diversified resources company. It is heavily involved in the production of minerals for energy: coal, oil and uranium. It makes a massive contribution to worsening climate change and is creating deadly radioactive pollution for hundreds of thousands of years to come. Its operations contribute to or benefit from involuntary relocation of communities and the destruction of rural communities and livelihoods.

Main speaker: Julio Cestar Gomez, President of FECODEMIGUA the Federation of Communities Displaced by Mining in La Guajira, Colombia.

All welcome. Please allow time to get through security.

For more information see here.