Rio Tinto goes naked into the shareholders’ chamber

Posted on | April 8, 2009 | Comments Off

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 its huge Ranger uranium mine in Australia; and continued illegal payments made to the Indonesian military to “safeguard” the Freeport-Rio Tinto Grasberg mine in West Papua.

See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=9151

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