Al Jazeera documentary: The Great Olympic Greenwash

London will soon play host to the 2012 Olympics, which organisers boast will be the most environmentally friendly Games ever. But with the metal for all competitor medals coming from one huge polluting hole in the ground in Utah, could London’s 2012 legacy be...

No Audit, No Certification – Throw Rio Tinto Off the Olympic Podium

Steelworkers Outraged by Lack of Ethics in London Olympics LONDON, U.K., 20 June, 2012 – International outrage is growing over Rio Tinto’s involvement in the London Olympics following the shocking revelation the mining giant has been allowed to “slip through” auditing...

The Great Olympic Greenwash

This year’s medals, the largest and heaviest in Olympic history, will be made almost entirely from the raw materials extracted and smelted at the Kennecott Copper Mine, owned by Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. But now this mine is also at the centre of...