Tell the International Olympic Committee that unfair companies have no place in the Olympic Games.
Unionised workers at Rio Tinto Alcan’s aluminium smelter in Alma, Quebec, Canada, have been illegally locked out by the company for over three months. They are calling on the International Olympic Committee to exclude Rio Tinto from association with the 2012...Visitors demand justice from Rio Tinto
Women from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the USA have travelled to London to ask Rio Tinto to monitor air quality at its controversial Eagle Mine. The women will be attending Rio Tinto’s AGM in London on Thursday 19 April. See...Gold miners call British firm to account
Anglo American is being taken to court for not protecting its workers in South Africa from dangerous dust. More than a thousand former miners from South Africa are bringing a case against Anglo American through the British courts after contracting the incurable lung...Launch of Greenwash Gold 2012 Campaign
London Mining Network, UK Tar Sands Network and Bhopal Medical Appeal launch the ‘Greenwash Gold 2012’ Campaign today. See the campaign website at http://www.greenwashgold.org/. See...Brazil historic site could trip up big Anglo mine
Anglo American’s plans to open its largest ever iron ore mine have stumbled over new rulings that will delay preparations to build the mine until it is deemed safe for an archaeological site within its perimeter. See...Rio Tinto and the 2012 Olympic Medals
Rio Tinto is providing the metal that will go into making all 4,700 gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2012 London Olympic and Paralympic games.
Metal for the medals will come from the company’s Bingham Canyon (Kennecott) mine in Utah, USA, and its Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia, where major concerns exist over air and water pollution, deadly health impacts, water scarcity and indigenous rights.