At Rio Tinto’s 2013 AGM, held in London last week, chairman Jan du Plessis did what none of his predecessors could achieve. Long gone are Rio’s dark knights – notably former Rio Tinto chairmen, Alistair Frame and Robert Wilson – who took such...
IndustriALL Global Union joined a diverse group of civil society activists, NGOs and community-based organizations in London to protest against Anglo American and Rio Tinto on the occasion of their Annual General Meetings on 18 and 19 April 2013 respectively. See...
The tiny Hunter Valley town has won a three-year battle against mining giant Rio Tinto, after a court ruling overturned a state-government endorsed decision to dig an open-cut coal mine next to the town. A Rio Tinto subsidiary, Coal & Allied, had been granted...
Rio Tinto recently wrote off some US$3 billion when the administration rejected its proposal to transport coal from its Riversdale mine along a major river. The UK company has also been confronted by vociferous opposition to its “resettlement” plans. See...
In one of the longest-running – and certainly the most widely-publicised – of Indian struggles to halt a threatened mining venture, the community seems to have won. On Thursday, 18 April 2013, the country’s Supreme Court (SC) ruled that the future...
India’s Supreme Court has fined Vedanta’s Sterlite subsidiary US$18.4 million for polluting water, soil, and air around its Tuticorin copper smelter in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, on 23 March 2013. However, as might have been foreseen, the Court...
