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...
2012 medals mine linked to premature deaths in Utah London Mining Network, an extractive industry watchdog, has reacted angrily to news that mining giant has been allowed to supply metals for the Olympics without having an agreed audit in place. Speaking in an...
The gold, silver and bronze metal in the London 2012 Olympic Games medals was mined after London Olympic Games organisers allowed its supplier Rio Tinto “to slip through the net”, an Olympic watchdog has found. See...
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...
Vote to Condemn Rio Tinto as Olympics Medals Provider Affiliates of the ICEM, IMF, and ITGLWF are uniting in action around the world in support of the United Steelworkers (USW) campaign to push Rio Tinto “Off the Podium”. Scores of affiliates are writing to and taking...
‘Conversational Corporation’ says BP, Dow Chemical and Rio Tinto, may find their partnering of the Olympics has backfired given the well organised and frequently covered Greenwash Gold Campaign. See...
