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BHP, Glencore, Anglo American face OECD investigation over environmental damage and human rights abuses at Colombian coal mine
Three of the world’s biggest miners including BHP could be forced to close down Latin America’s largest open pit mine, with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) set to investigate environmental destruction and alleged human rights abuses.
Key points:
- The OECD investigation follows the UN calling for a halt to mining at Cerrejon
- Cerrejon is owned by BHP, Anglo American and Glencore
- The Colombian Constitutional Court has acknowledged environmental and health damage caused by the mine
The probe comes just months after the United Nations called on BHP, Anglo American and Glencore to suspend some operations at the massive Cerrejon thermal coal mine in Colombia, in the La Guajira region, near the border with…
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