The heart-warming tale of a friendly, flatulent and hitch-hiking dog has seen major mining firms branch out into new territory, as they support an Australian film about the legendary “Red Dog”. Companies such as Rio Tinto and Woodside Petroleum have backed the low-budget movie which depicts Western Australia’s resource-rich Pilbara region in the 1970s when the mining industry was taking off there.
See http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100609-274720/Flatulent-dog-to-trumpet-Australian-mining-industry.