Rio Tinto: The shareholder value of austerity

Rio Tinto: The shareholder value of austerity

By Andy Whitmore, Co-chair, London Mining Network A funny thing happened on the way to boredom. I was sitting, as so often, in a company shareholder annual general meeting; this particular edition being Rio Tinto’s 2014 AGM. We were in the first section of the...
Rio Tinto AGM 2014: thanks, and no thanks

Rio Tinto AGM 2014: thanks, and no thanks

Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network Thanks from Alaska This year’s Rio Tinto AGM was extraordinary for one particular reason: Indigenous representatives had travelled all the way from Alaska to THANK the company – for pulling out of a project that...
Rio Tinto AGM 2014: thanks, and no thanks

Rio Tinto London AGM 2014 in the news

Yesterday’s Rio Tinto AGM was widely covered in the press and social media. John Vidal wrote in the Guardian about recently published reports about the impacts of Rio Tinto’s uranium mining in Namibia. These reports were also featured in Independent...