Tag: Rio Tinto

Mining, Mining & Politics

Country for Bad Dreams: Vandalism on the Nullarbor Plain – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Within the wheels of the company, blissful ignorance reigned. Rio Tinto’s head of corporate relations, Simone Niven, was not only based in London but had little idea about the significance of the Juukan Gorge caves. Relations could hardly be counted as her strong suit.

Conforming to previous instances of such vandalism, penalties are being called for regarding the perpetrators of the graffiti. Under the legal regime, damaging such sites can carry a fine of $A10,000 or six months in prison. But the harm has been done; again, history has been left poorer, and the dreams worse than ever.

Source: Country for Bad Dreams: Vandalism on the Nullarbor Plain – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Australia's Shame

Where there are Tailings, No Grass Grows: Serbians Protest against Rio Tinto – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Rio Tinto has achieved what it set out to do in Australia recently blow up one of our Major Heritage sites and get away with it and carry on. The mining corporation is now promising the Serb’s wealth, and fortune if they are allowed to destroy their natural environment, why? They simply see a profit in it.

A large protest movement is taking shape in Serbia, centred on the importance of clean water, air, soil and observance of sound environmental regulations. The month of November saw protesting efforts that involved blocking roads in Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, Užice, Loznica and Kruševac, amongst others. Rio Tinto, environmental vandal par excellence, has shown, along with other mining giants, a marked tendency to ignore local grievances and fears while flattering gullible authorities with promises of a glittering future. The future for the Jadar valley, outlined by one sceptical ecologist, Mirjana Lukić Anđelković is suitably dark. The company, she told the morning program TV Nova S “Wake Up” in March this year, promises to mine for six decades and “make a mountain of tailings.” Where there are tailings, “there is no grass, nothing grows.”

Source: Where there are Tailings, No Grass Grows: Serbians Protest against Rio Tinto – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment, Uncategorized

Rio Tinto: ditch the colonial baggage and get with a 21st-century program – Michael West

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Rio Tinto has just announced an astronomical profit, largely on the back of its continued exploitation of Indigenous land in WA. Yet Rio still does not have an Indigenous Australian in a senior executive role. To maintain its social licence the company must also move its headquarters to Australia and up its royalties, writes Stephen Mayne.Indigenous Land,

via Rio Tinto: ditch the colonial baggage and get with a 21st-century program – Michael West

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts- Racist Bolt asks, “Why talk about all that abo shit Stan?” and claims he listened

Fighting Fake News with REAL 16/7/20; Palace letters; OOPS! Jewish pride in Melbourne. My mother is on the wall of the righteous; Fake News Bolt’s surprise;

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News, Uncategorized

Old Dog Thoughts- One man stopped the tanks in Tiamen Square. No man stops the cops in Trumpland

Fighting Fake News with REAL 6/6/20; For Rio Tinto Black Lives Matter less than share holders;; How MORRISON became an MP; Tanks stopped for one man in Tiamen Square but cops in Buffalo USA didn’t;