The London High Court gave its ruling on a complaint by 22 indigenous Peruvians concerning disclosure and alleged deletion of documents by Xstrata Tintaya S.A. (Xstrata) (now owned by Glencore). This followed a court hearing on 8 July 2016. The complaint focused on the initial omission to disclose an email from an Xstrata director [Charles Sartain] to its senior South America manager [Jose Marun] which had proposed a “direct, proactive and strong approach” to confront community representatives to whom he referred as “sons of whores”.
The London High Court gave its ruling on a complaint by 22 indigenous Peruvians concerning disclosure and alleged deletion of documents by Xstrata Tintaya S.A. (Xstrata) (now owned by Glencore). This followed a court hearing on 8 July 2016. The complaint focused on the initial omission to disclose an email from an Xstrata director [Charles Sartain] to its senior South America manager [Jose Marun] which had proposed a “direct, proactive and strong approach” to confront community representatives to whom he referred as “sons of whores”.
The Court of Justice at Cluj-Napoca admitted a request formulated by Mining Watch Romania Network and its legal councilor, the Independent Center for the Development of Environmental Resources (ICDER). Both requested the suspension of the validity of the construction permit for the site management facilities of the Certej tailings dams.
After many years of majority ownership of the Bougainville’s Panguna mine, Rio Tinto has announced the sale of its majority stake in Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL) to an Australian equity investment company. It would then be shared between the country’s Autonomous Government (ABG) and that of Papua New Guinea. If one or other doesn’t take up the “offer” BCL could then be sold to a third party.
