Rio Tinto, Get Serious About Water!
With some 23 million people already suffering globally from the impacts of existing toxic water contamination as a result of mine tailings and wastewater, and this number likely to increase with the exponential increase of mineral extraction for the energy transition,...
Rio Tinto Roadblock: Community Organisers Threatened in Madagascar
On 2 June, thousands gathered to block the main road to Rio Tinto’s QMM mine in Madagascar. This protest follows an offer of a compensation and indemnification payment by the mining company, which many say falls far short of the value of the losses suffered by...
What Rio Tinto isn’t saying
As the Anglo-Australian mining giant celebrates 150 years of operation, we take the opportunity to present some of the information the company would rather not share. From the fatal flaws in its plans for Resolution Copper to the gagging clauses used in Madagascar,...