Rio Tinto targeted for Colombia investment
A protest was held outside Rio Tinto’s Melbourne offices on 13 March to launch a campaign against multinationals investing in Colombia. Rio Tinto has several exploration projects in Colombia and it plans to start mining next year. See http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/787/40528
Colombia: No to Muriel Mining and Rio Tinto
On 28 February the “Consulta de los Pueblos” (Peoples’ Referendum) in Usa – Kirrandara hill ended with a categorical “no” to the mining industry. It is the first time that a referendum of this sort has taken place in Colombia. The population of about 1,500 indigenous and Afro-Colombian people expressed their view of the Mandé [...]
Rio’s road to China
In April, Rio Tinto shareholders meet to deliver judgment on plans by the world’s oldest multinational mining company, to sell a hug amount of stock, and part control of some mining projects, to a Chinese state-owned company. Ramifications of the deal stretch beyond the initial proposal, taking on major political dimensions. http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9117
Rio Tinto allies with Mid-East despots
Although desperately trying to bail itself out of debt (notwithstanding the pending deal with Chinalco) and having sacked thousands of workers from its Alcan Canada operations, Rio Tinto has just signed two agreements presaging an integrated aluminium project with one of the world’s most corrupt and despotic regimes. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9125
Polluted water leaking into Kakadu from uranium mine owned by Rio Tinto subsidiary ERA
THE Ranger uranium mine inside the World Heritage-listed Kakadu National Park is leaking 100,000 litres of contaminated water into the ground beneath the park every day, a Government appointed scientist has revealed. See http://www.watoday.com.au/national/polluted-water-leaking-into-kakadu-from-uranium-mine-20090312-8whw.html
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