The Department of Mines and Energy on Friday said it was not in the public interest to press charges against Rio Tinto subsidiary Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) for breaching the Mining Management Act when up to one million litres of contaminated acidic slurry spilled from a collapsed leach tank in December 2013.
The Department of Mines and Energy on Friday said it was not in the public interest to press charges against Rio Tinto subsidiary Energy Resources of Australia (ERA) for breaching the Mining Management Act when up to one million litres of contaminated acidic slurry spilled from a collapsed leach tank in December 2013.
In a disinctly worrying, if not deplorable, development, come allegations that alumina-carrying ships, owned or chartered by companies such as Rio Tinto and and Alcoa, are complicit in forcibly removing Australian workers, in order to replace them with foreign crews paid only $2 an hour. The de-unionisation of Australian mines is, of course, something Rio Tinto has pursued for many years.
In a disinctly worrying, if not deplorable, development, come allegations that alumina-carrying ships, owned or chartered by companies such as Rio Tinto and and Alcoa, are complicit in forcibly removing Australian workers, in order to replace them with foreign crews paid only $2 an hour. The de-unionisation of Australian mines is, of course, something Rio Tinto has pursued for many years.
Rio Tinto Group, the world’s second-biggest mining company, scrapped its progressive dividend policy and set out new spending cuts as plunging commodity prices slashed full-year profit 51%.
