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 [...]
BOUGAINVILLE: Mekamui Message: No More Mining, No More Bloodshed.
See http://vimeo.com/10794473. Clive Porabou took a strong message to London. When he attended the Rio Tinto Annual General Meeting on 15 April, he told them ‘no more mining’ on Mekamui (Bougainville Island). Bougainville Copper Limited’s Panguna mine closed in 1989 after an armed struggle against the company and the government of Papua New Guinea. BCL [...]
Women’s group opposes reopening of Bougainville mine
Women representing an indigenous landowner’s group on the Papua New Guinean island of Bougainville say they’re opposed to reopening the mine that was at the centre of a bloody civil war. Local anger towards the Panguna copper mine was at the heart of the civil war that gripped Bougainville during the 1990s. The mine was [...]
Bougainville: No sign that war-torn mine will re-open
But there are questions over Rio Tinto subsidiary’s recent role Bougainville’s vice-president has said that the “future and re-opening of the Panguna copper mine is to be decided by the Panguna landowners themselves” -Â while adding that “the views of other stakeholders must also be considered and taken into account.” One of these so-called “stakeholders” [...]
Papua New Guinea: Amnesty urges police violence at Porgera be investigated
Amnesty International has published a report on alleged police brutality and forced evictions occurring around the Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea. The organisation asks members of the public to urge the PNG government to investigate the human rights violations, prosecute those responsible, and provide remedy to those whose human rights were violated. An [...]
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