Rio Tinto

Troubled Waters: How Mine Waste Dumping is Poisoning Our Oceans, Rivers and Lakes
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Each year, mining companies dump more than 180 million tonnes of hazardous mine waste into rivers, lakes, and oceans worldwide, threatening vital bodies of water with toxic heavy metals and other chemicals poisonous to humans and wildlife, according to report released today by two leading mining reform groups.

Canada, Metal Mining Effluent Regulations, Water, British Columbia, Ok Tedi Mine - BHP-Billiton/Inmet, Manitoba, Porgera Mine - Barrick, Indonesia, Newfoundland & Labrador, Waste Rock and Tailings, Northwest Territories, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Papua New Guinea, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Environment, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Cliffs, Submarine/Subaqueous Tailings Disposal, Water and fisheries, Goldcorp, Iron Ore Company of Canada, Labrador Iron Mines, Newmont, Northern Dynasty, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto Alcan, Rio Tinto, Taseko, Teck, Vale (incl. Inco), Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
CIDA Subsidizes Mining’s Social Responsibility Projects
Tuesday, February 22, 2011

News release: In defence of beleaguered Minister of International Cooperation, Bev Oda, Prime Minister Stephen Harper told Parliament that the Canadian International Development Agency should give money only to “the poorest and the most vulnerable.” This is NOT what CIDA is doing.

Ghana, Corporate Accountability, Corporate Social Responsibility, Barrick Gold, Peru, Rio Tinto
Incomplete Reporting Still Reveals Mining Companies' Toxic Threat: Environmental groups worry some of Canada's mines are dragging feet on federal order to report toxic mining waste
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Joint news release with Ecojustice and Great Lakes United: New data released Friday in response to a lawsuit won last year by Ecojustice, on behalf of Great Lakes United and MiningWatch Canada, is beginning to shine a light on the toxic legacy of Canada's mining and tar sands industries. Unfortunately, despite a lawsuit and a government order to report pollutant releases, some facilities have failed to comply.

Alberta, Canada, LAB Chrysotile, Labrador, Water, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland & Labrador, Northwest Territories, Areva/Cogema, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Breakwater Resources, Cameco, Cliffs, Crew, De Beers, Toxics/National Pollutant Release Inventory, Goldcorp, HudBay Minerals, IAMGOLD, Imperial Metals, Inmet, Iron Ore Company of Canada, LAB Chrysotile, Newmont, Northgate, Rio Tinto, Teck, Vale (incl. Inco), Xstrata (Falconbridge/Noranda)
OECD Complaint Filed Against Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe Mines in Mongolia
Sunday, July 18, 2010

On March 31, 2010, the Government of Mongolia signed an investment agreement with Rio Tinto International Holdings Limited and Ivanhoe Mines Ltd. for the development of a massive gold/copper mine.

Corporate Accountability, Mongolia, Newsletter 28: Summer 2010, Ivanhoe, Rio Tinto
Ecuador: Government Shuts Down Ascendant Copper’s Junín Project
Friday, September 28, 2007
(Ottawa/Intag) Canadian junior mining company Ascendant Copper Corporation’s ambitions to develop a major copper mine in the Intag region of northwestern Ecuador were dealt a serious blow on September 25, 2007, when restrictions on the company’s activities in the area turned into a total prohibition. Ecuador’s Minister ...
Ecuador, Copper Mesa/Ascendant Copper, Rio Tinto
There Are No Clean Diamonds: What You Need to Know About Canadian Diamonds
Thursday, December 7, 2006

There are no clean diamonds. Exploring for them, digging them out of the ground and selling them requires sacrifices from the natural environment, from the wildlife and fish that live on it, and from the Aboriginal people who depend on it.

We want to ensure that the public understand that Canada’s Aboriginal communities are engaged in a daily power struggle to ensure that the mines benefit their people, and to ensure that these mines do not irreversibly damage the intricate web of life on which we all depend.

Canada, Congo - Democratic Republic, Victor Project, Africa, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Diamonds, BHP-Billiton, De Beers, Rio Tinto
This is My Homeland: Stories of the effects of nuclear industries by people (Review)
Saturday, December 2, 2006
(Edited by Lorraine Rekmans, Keith Lewis and Anabel Dwyer; published by the Serpent River First Nation, Cutler, Ontario, 2003. 123 pp. Reviewed by Jamie Kneen.) It was not the Anishinabe people of the Serpent River, who decided to mine the massive uranium deposits that lie under the river basin where the town of Elliot Lake now sits. But it is they who have suffered the most from ...
Ontario, Denison, Uranium, Rio Tinto
Save Indonesia's Protected Forest Areas from Mining
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Deforestation in Indonesia has reached 2.4 million hectares (1.2%) per year or approximately 10 acres of rainforest a minute. Mining multinational companies and foreign governments are lobbying the Indonesian government to open up protected forest areas, national parks and other protected areas for mining while local communities and environmental justice groups are ...
Sulawesi, Indonesia, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Newmont, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto
The winners of the 2003 Dirty Digger Awards have been decided
Wednesday, December 3, 2003

The winners of the 2003 Dirty Digger Awards have been decided. The awards are being made to coincide with the Mining Journal's 'Outstanding Achievement' Awards, to be presented at the Mines and Money Congress on 3rd December 2003.

Corporate Accountability, Indonesia, Russia, Tanzania, Corporate Social Responsibility, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Newmont, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto, TVI Pacific
Landmark 'no-go' pledge from leading mining companies
Wednesday, August 20, 2003

International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) announcement:

Corporate Accountability, AngloGold Ashanti, Reforming Mining Laws and Policies, Corporate Social Responsibility, Environmental Planning, Barrick Gold, BHP-Billiton, Newmont, Noranda/Falconbridge, Placer Dome, Rio Tinto

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