Report on the London AGM of Rio Tinto, 15 April 2010
Introduction This was Jan du Plessis’ first AGM as Chairman, and he gave plenty of time for questions on the annual report. There were numerous questions on the convictions of Rio Tinto officials in China for bribery (see Rio accused of abandoning Stern Hu, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/16/2874320.htm), on the clash of timing of the Rio Tinto AGM [...]
Rio Tinto: A Shameful History of Human and Labour Rights Abuses And Environmental Degradation Around the Globe
This document was prepared by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in San Francisco, USA. References corresponding to numbered notes in the text are listed at the end of the article. Introduction Mining giant Rio Tinto promotes itself as a responsible and ethical employer and good neighbour, as well as a protector of the environment. [...]
Borneo bears the brunt of “Deadly Coal”
Indonesian NGO launches global campaign Last February, at the invitation of JATAM (the Indonesian Mining Advocacy Network) and JATAM Kaltim (JATAM East Kalimantan), UK researcher Andrew Hickman saw for himself the impacts of coal mining in and around Samarinda, East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). Andrew works for LMN member group Down to Earth. He came across [...]
Blood and Iron: Rio Tinto heads to the top
Rio Tinto is talking up its future prospects, in advance of its London annual general meeting next month. A huge nickel mine is slated for Indonesia; the company is about to take over a vast iron ore field in Orissa. And it’s just announced a £1.9 billion deal with its largest single shareholder, the Chinese [...]
Papua Tribe Files $32b Lawsuit Against Freeport
Papua’s Amungme tribe on Monday lodged a new class-action lawsuit against US mining giant Freeport-McMoRan seeking $32.5 billion in material and non-material damages for the alleged illegal acquisition of its ancestral land. The action, filed at the South Jakarta District Court, came after an initial lawsuit filed last August collapsed and a second attempt to [...]
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