Friends in Australia tackled Rio Tinto’s board on numerous issues at the company’s 5 May AGM, building on the interactions at the London AGM on 8 April. The company’s responses were similarly unimpressive. Notes were taken of the Question and Answer...
Report on the Rio Tinto plc AGM, London, 8 April 2022 By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network, with assistance from Andy Whitmore, Richard Harkinson, Roger Featherstone and Yvonne Orengo Introduction Despite the unpleasantness of mining company AGMs, it...
Dear friends, I am afraid that the news in this mailout is dominated by killings. The war in Ukraine is not the only military conflict which is brutally ending the lives of thousands of people – there are, regrettably, a number of such conflicts – but this...
Traditional herders from Khanbogd, Mongolia, held a demonstration at the gates of the Rio-Tinto controlled Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine on Tuesday 11 January, 2022. The herders are demanding that the International Finance Corporation (the private finance arm of the...
Dear friends, With the COP26 talks coming up, we have created educational materials for teachers and held an educational event for young people. Follow-up films to this event are on our website. We are working within the COP26 Coalition on a number of events during...
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