'#Panguna was formerly one of the world’s largest copper and gold mines. During its operation from 1972 to 1989, over a billion tonnes of waste tailings from the mine were released directly into the Jaba and Kawerong rivers'
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'The recipient of the land is a firm called #ResolutionCopper, which was set up by the miners Rio Tinto and #BHPBilliton.'
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www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/16/...
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'..the Trump administration, in its waning days, has embarked on a rushed effort to transfer ownership of the area to a mining company with ties to the destruction of an Aboriginal site in Australia, the Guardian has...
#ApacheLeap "memorializes tribal losses when European immigrants invaded their homeland'
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#RioTintoVandals '#Resolution plans to extract 1.4m tons of copper ore by blasting beneath the surface and pulling it out through tunnels. Once all the ore is sucked out, a crater estimated to be 1,000 feet deep and almost two miles across will be...
'Despite the mine being years away from being rehabilitated, #ERA does not want to continue paying the $2.5 million in annual funding for the office'
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#JuukanGorge traditional owners given 'gag order' warning by lawyers for #RioTinto
'They were also told they could not apply for a federal emergency halt to works without first asking Rio Tinto's permission and giving 30 days' notice...'
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'South of the #PKKP county (where #JuukanGorge is), the #YinhawangkaAboriginalCorporation (YAC) is attempting to prevent the destruction of 124 Aboriginal heritage sites that are in the path of Rio Tinto’s Western Range...
Now he’s getting rid of these three executives but giving them $40 million to leave. It is #obscene by every measure and yet another monstrous insult to the traditional owners of #JuukanGorge, the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people.'
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'Simon Thompson’s position as chairman is completely untenable. Three weeks ago, he refused to get rid of these three executives, instead docking their pay by $7.9 million'
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www.afr.com/rear-window/don-t-feel-s...
'#HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey warned Rio that executive changes would not alone fix the systemic issues that led to destruction of #JuukanGorge'
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www.afr.com/companies/mining/rio-tin...
'..both archeologically and to the local Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people, since 2013.'
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#RioTintoVandals have lied
“The upshot of Rio Tinto’s submissions and report is that the destruction of #JuukanGorge was all a tragic mistake for which everyone and no one is...
'The internal document provided to an ongoing parliamentary inquiry into the destruction of a 46,000-year-old Aboriginal heritage site at Rio Tinto's Brockman 4 mine shows..the company was willing to fight any injunction attempt from the #PKKP to stop the blast'
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Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura (#PKKP) spokesperson 'Burchell Hayes said the traditional owners were deeply hurt and traumatised by the desecration of #JuukanGorge.'
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Jacques seeks to meet Juukan Gorge traditional owners in WA...
