A delegation of native leaders and commercial salmon fishermen from Bristol Bay, Alaska, travelled to London to attend the Anglo American annual general meeting (AGM) on 15 April. The company owns roughly 70% of the …
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Anglo American AGM: protests from Alaska and Colombia
US delegation report on Rio Tinto AGM
Lutheran pastor, Jon Magnuson, from Marquette, Michigan, USA, presented the Rio Tinto board with a document signed by one hundred faith leaders of ten faith traditions in Marquette, Baraga and Keweenaw counties. Magnuson said that …
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Rio Tinto investors vent fury at $20bn Chinalco stake
Rio Tinto board told at annual meeting they were ‘selling the family silver‘
Many private investors in Rio Tinto vented their anger at the mining group’s annual meeting in London over the board’s decision …
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Rio Tinto attacked from all sides
Yesterday’s Rio Tinto AGM was full of dissatisfied shareholders, and not only the usual suspects.
Objections were raised to the proposed bailout by Chinalco, the level of executive pay, the clash of the AGM with …
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Rio Tinto goes naked into the shareholders’ chamber
On April 15th, Rio Tinto plc holds its 2009 annual general meeting in London. Among the issues for which the world’s third biggest mining company should face opprobrium are: confirmed leakages of contaminated water from …
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Xstrata soars on BHP Billiton takeover talk
TALK of a possible BHP Billiton tilt at Xstrata has put a rocket under the Anglo-Swiss mining giant’s London-listed shares this week. Speculation that BHP and Brazilian iron ore giant Vale have Xstrata in their …
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Justice postponed – justice denied
How much liability – if any – will UK mining company Vedanta shoulder, if and when it takes over the US’ historically most damaging non-ferrous metals producer, Asarco? That’s a burning question which numerous Asarco …
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Subprime Carbon: Environmentalists Warn About the Next Big Bubble
As US policymakers debate Wall Street reform, there is little attention being paid to whether new regulations will be adequate to govern carbon trading and the carbon derivatives markets, which many experts believe could become …
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Nuclear Power Cannot Solve Climate Change
A new report finds that nuclear power plants cannot be built quickly enough and in a safe and secure manner to be a major global solution for climate change, according to a report from the …
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New Report slams mine taxation rules for penalising African states
In a new report on the inequities and injustices of mining taxation regimes in Africa, a group of African and international NGOs has called for two major changes. First, that the process of creating tax …
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New films on Niyamgiri
Surya Dash, a filmmaker from Orissa, has produced a 96 minute long documentary film Niyamgiri – The Mountain of Law. Niyamgiri is the mountain, sacred to the Dongaria Kondh people, which is threatened by …
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