Freeport-Rio Tinto workers in West Papua claim they are paid only US$1.5 an hour, while other Freeport workers around the world receive at least ten times this amount. Two weeks ago, 8,000 of them went on strike at the Grasberg mine, the world’s biggest single...
London Calling asks: did Rio Tinto fund war on Bougainville? Whatever Michael Somare might have done in office (or out of it) over the past 22 years, as the first prime minister of Papua New Guinea he undoubtedly displayed “fibre” in negotiating the terms...
Kennecott is a US subsidiary of London-based Rio Tinto. Press Release from Jack Parker and Associates Inc, Toivola, Michigan 49965, USA June 30, 2011 Contacts: Jack Parker (Jack Parker and Associates; jprockdoctor@gmail.com) Laura Gauger (00 1 218-724-3004;...
RIO Tinto chief executive Tom Albanese says big polluters are being “vilified” by those seeking to score political points, as he lashed out at “extreme” calls for Australia’s coal industry to be shut down and replaced by renewable...
The Mirrar, traditional owners of Koongarra, have won their battle for the modification of borders to their uranium-rich territory and this will now be included within the boundaries of the existing Kakadu National Park World Heritage Area. Nonetheless plans by Rio...
His breathing is laboured, his chest is tight, and he is too weak to work in his garden any more. At the age of 63, former mine worker Wilson Mafolwana wonders if he’ll still be alive when justice is done. He is among the millions of migrant workers who toiled in...
