Do we want Rio Tinto to tempt our politicians and military with huge bribes?

According to a 2005 article in the Times, Freeport which is a Rio Tinto subsidiary,  engaged in major bribing to be allowed to mine gold in a remote area in Papua.

As Rio Tinto ogles the seabed along the entire west coast of the North island we must ask ourselves the question; do we want these people to operate in New Zealand? Do we want to open green New Zealand to a major mining company that has a huge record of human and environmental abbuse, and that even though it projects itself as a reponsable cooperate citizen continues along the same lines, and shows in all it’s actions that it is not? Do we want these companies to corrupt us, our politicians, our military?

Inform yourself read this article here

Rio Tinto New: New one same as the old

Rio Tinto projects itself as a responsible cooperate world citizen.
But it has an impressive history of human rights abbuses, and environmental pollution dissasters.

In its 2003 Human rights declaration it states that they work according to the internation declaration of human rights, but according to Amnesty UK the abuse still goes on. Read about it here  

Rio Tinto finally get’s what it had coming

Fighting Corporate Copper in Bougainville
Multinational polluter Rio Tinto sued under Alien Tort Claims Act for causing deaths of 10,000 Papua New Guineans

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