The British Columbia Environmental Appeal Board has upheld Rio Tinto's plans for sulphur dioxide emissions in the Kitimat airshed and dismissed the appeal from residents Emily Toews and Elisabeth Stannus. The 113 page decision was released by the EAB late on December 23. It contains a series of recommendations for further studies and monitoring of […]
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Members of Unifor 2301 rallied in front of the Rio Tinto offices at City Centre Mall in Kitimat, Wednesday, October 7, to protest against what they called "precarious work" and health and safety issues at the Rio Tinto BC Operations aluminum smelter. The rally was part what the union calls a "Rio Tinto Global Day […]
Kitimat Unifor local 2301 has succeeded in forcing the Environmental Assessment Board (EAB) to take responsibility for investigating the impact of plans for a dramatic increase of sulphur dioxide (SO2) at the Rio Tinto smelter in Kitimat. The BC Supreme Court has sided with Unifor in a judicial review involving the Ministry of Environment's approval […]
Gaby Poirier, BC operations manager for the Rio Tinto Aluminum metals group called it a shining moment as the first ingots from the new modernized potlines were wheeled into the also new Henning Hall at the Kitimat smelter on Tuesday, July 7. Referring to the nearly complete Kitimat Modernization Project (KMP), Poirier said, “It's now […]
Mongolia will hold a reality television style text message referendum on the future of Rio Tinto's troubled Oyu Tolgoi copper mine project, the Financial Times reports. The FT says Mongolian prime minister Saikhanbileg Chimed will ask voters whether their country should develop more of its mineral resources or resort to austerity to support the faltering […]
Glencore: The great white shark stalking Rio Tinto
October 7, 2014
The world's business media are paying rapt attention to Glencore’s now stalled attempt to take over Rio Tinto. Late Tuesday, the company issued a news release which says Glencore announces that in July 2014 it made an informal enquiry by telephone call to Rio Tinto, seeking to gauge whether there might be any interest at Rio […]
The cost of the Kitimat Modernization Project has jumped to $4.8 billion US, Sam Walsh CEO of Rio Tinto, the parent company of Rio Tinto Alcan said Thursday as the company released its results for the first six months of 2014. In its report. Rio Tinto said. In February 2014, the Group announced that a […]
The US based Natural Resources Defence Counsel environmental group, a major opponent of both the Keystone XL and Northern Gateway pipeline projects, is praising Rio Tinto for divesting its interests in the controversial Alaska Pebble Mine project. The NRDC is, in fact, so pleased, with Rio Tinto that they took out an expensive full page […]
Britain's Financial Times is reporting that Rio Tinto has donated its stake in Alaska's controversial Pebble Mine to two Alaska charities, one run by a local First Nation. Rio Tinto donates Alaska copper mine stake to charities (registration/subscription required) Rio Tinto had a 19 per cent stake in Northern Dynasty, a Vancouver-based mining company whose […]
Britain's Financial Times today chose two Kitimat related companies to highlight how western business is turning more and more to China. Shell turns to Asian suppliers in US shale race (Registration/subscription required) Royal Dutch Shell has said it will deploy more Chinese equipment at its struggling US shale business – becoming the latest natural resources company […]