Rio Tinto

Pebble Mine: No Means No!

Joel Reynolds | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Alaska, Fisheries, Mining, Video, Rio Tinto, Pebble Partnership, Clean Water Act, Anglo American, Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Green News

The Pebble Mine is a reckless project, overwhelmingly opposed by the people who live there -- and one that the world cannot afford.

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Australia Unearths Country's Largest Pink Diamond Ever

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 02.22.2012

Read More: Rio Tinto Pink Diamond, Pink Diamond Rio Tinto, Argyle Mine, Rio Tinto, Video, Pink Diamond Australia, Australia, 12.76 Carat Pink Diamond, Argyle Pink Jubilee, Pink Diamond, Rio Tinto Pink Diamond Australia, Rare Pink Diamond, Australia Pink Diamond, Pink Diamond Discovered, World News

A massive rough pink diamond has been unearthed in Rio Tinto's Argyle diamond mine in Western Australia, CNN reports. At 12.76 carats, the remark...

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9th Circuit Widens Court Split Over Suing Corporations

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: Human Rights Violations, Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, Rio Tinto, Alien Tort Claims Act, Corporate Liability, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Papua New Guinea, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Corporations can be held liable in U.S. courts for human rights violations committed abroad, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circu...

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The World's Richest Diamond Mines

24/7 Wall St. | Paul Ausick | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme, Diamonds, Rio Tinto, Rapaport Diamond Report, Diamond Mines, Africa, Ipo, BHP Billiton, Russian Government, De Beers Group, Alrosa, Business News

The global diamond mining industry may be one of the world’s best-kept secrets. Next to anything else having to do with diamonds, that is. The four ...

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As Companies Gather for Shareholder Meetings, Opposition to Bristol Bay Mine Mounts

Robert Redford | Posted 06.21.2011

Read More: Salmon, Rio Tinto, Mining, Anglo American, Mitsubishi, Alaska, Alaska Wild Salmon, Bristol Bay Mining, Bristol Bay, Utah, Green News

I'm not against mining. I am against putting mega-mines where they don't belong.

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The End of Incumbent Capitalism?

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Wall Street Journal, Economy, Renewable Energy, Rio Tinto, Clean Technology, Dow Chemical, Business News

The mainstream business community and clean tech innovators alike are terrified that the Tea Party's hostility towards the national government constitutes a serious threat to the economy.

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Bidding War for Potash of Saskatchewan?

Michael de Portu | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Population Growth, Rio Tinto, Monopoly Pricing, Miners, Fertilizers, Food, India, Potash, Mergers, China, Bhp, Business News

If laptops and automobiles could be priced like fertilizer, and withdrawn from the market whenever buyers balk, think about how much better those companies would be doing today.

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What's Green, White and Blue? American Jobs

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Apollo Alliance, Shenyang Power Group, LTV Steel, Sca, Tianjin Pipe, A-Power Energy Generation Systems Ltd., Green Jobs, United Auto Workers, Renewable Energy, U.S. Commerce Department, BlueGreen Alliance, Unfair Trade, Wind Turbine, Import Duties, Svenska Cellulosa AB, White Collar, Grupo Mexico, Wilbur Ross, Blue Collar, Rio Tinto, Charlie Rose, Sen. Sherrod Brown, Pbs, Manufacturing, U.S. Renewable Energy Group, United Steelworkers, Manufacturing Jobs, Wind Farm, Energy Independence, Jinxiang Lu, Bridgestone-Firestone, Arcelor-Mittal, Severstal, Business News

Additional wind farms mean more renewable energy freeing the U.S. from reliance on foreign oil. But there's no point in replacing imported foreign oil with imported wind turbines

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BP Kern Power Plant Project Gets Millions In Stimulus, Despite Oil Spill And Criminal Probe

California Watch | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hydrogen Energy Plant, Energy, Rio Tinto, California, Bp, Carbon Emissions, Doe, Oil Spill, Heca, Kern, Federal Stimulus, Coal, Power Plant, Petroleum Coke, Green News

The federal government is giving a joint venture involving oil giant BP millions of dollars in stimulus money to build a power plant on farmland near ...

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A Sacred Fire Is Burning at Eagle Rock

Cynthia Pryor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rio Tinto, Charlotte Loonsfoot, Avatar, Eagle Rock, Great Lakes, Native Americans, Upper Peninsula Michigan, Lake Superior, Michigan, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Anishinaabe, Sulfide Mining, Copper-Mining, Mineral Rights, Nickel Mining, Green News

Outside Avatar, indigenous communities are waging very real battles to protect sacred sites. And not just in exotic corners of the world, but right here in America, in the Great Lakes.

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A Hopeful Election in Guinea

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rio Tinto, Guinea-Elections, Africa, Guinea, Mining, World Bank, Robert Amsterdam, Democracy, Francois Lonceny Fall, Vale, Alpha Condé, Cellou Dalein Diallo, Ecowas, Rusal, World News

At a moment in which the tide of global democracy is seemingly in reversal, it is heartening to note the enthusiasm with which many voters in Africa a...

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Pebble Mine: Foreign Mining Companies' Scheme Would Poison America's Paradise

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rio Tinto, Anglo-American-Mining-Company-Alaska, Copper Poisoning, No Pebble Pledge, Caretakers of Our Land, Earth Day, Mining, Salmon Spawning, Tiffany & Co., Pebble Mine, Endangered Species, Alaska, Tundra, Nunamta Aulukestai, Bristol Bay, Green News

The British mining giant Anglo American is scheming to construct one of the world's largest copper and gold mines, the Pebble Mine, in the watershed above Alaska's pristine Bristol Bay.

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Green News Report -- March 30, 2010 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Epa, West Virginia, Clean Energy, Green News Report, Whales, Climategate, Coal, Obama Health Care, Mountaintop Removal, Clean Energy Race, Earth Hour, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Tea Party, Coal Mining, Solar Power, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Rio Tinto, Toxic Water, Ipcc, Carbon Emissions, Green Building, World Meterological Organization, Energy Policy, Rajendra Pachauri, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Pew Research Center, Sarah Palin, Green News, Koch Industries, Black Lung, China, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app! IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: China beats ...

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Rio Tinto Sentence: China Gives Employees Up To 14 Years In Jail

AP | ROHAN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rio Tinto, China, China Jail, Australia, Rio Tinto China, Stern Hu, World News

SYDNEY — Australia's leader said Tuesday that secrecy surrounding China's trial of four Rio Tinto workers for commercial espionage leaves room f...

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ECO:nomics -- Creating Environmental Capital

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Cap and Trade, T. Boone Pickens, Rio Tinto, Carbon Emissions, Royal Dutch Shell, Venture Capitalists, John Doerr, ECO:Nomics, Energy Bill, Business, Green Energy, Wall Street Journal, Vinod Khosla, Green News

If there is one clear message coming out of the ECO:nomics Conference, it's that we need to assign a price or cost to carbon emissions, and soon.

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Stern Hu Detained In China, Australia Moves Cautiously In Effort To Free Executive

nytimes.com | MERAIAH FOLEY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rio Tinto, China Australia, Stern Hu China, Australia, Stern Hu, Kevin Rudd, Australia China, Rio Tinto China, China, World News

SYDNEY, Australia The government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has been walking a political tightrope since the detention last week of an Australian mi...

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Bjork Battles Icelandic Aluminum Industry

Green Inc. | James Kanter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Rio Tinto, Environmental Policy, Iceland, Energy Economics, Energy Politics, Aluminum, Geothermal Energy, Energy Business, Alcoa, Climate Change, Alternative Energy, Björk, Bjork, Green News

The hugely popular Icelandic singer Björk has gone into battle with another of the island's big exports - aluminum. Björk says the aluminum product...

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No More Munich: The Mongolian Version Of 1938

Andrew Racz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ivanhoe, Sanj Bayar, Rio Tinto, Mongolia, Business News

When the new cabinet of Prime Minister Sanj Bayar of Mongolia sits down with the Western mining companies, Rio Tinto and Ivanhoe, to ratify hopefully ...

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Blackstone Denies Bidding For Rio Tinto

Fox Business | Sue Chang | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blackstone, Rio Tinto, Blackstone Group, Business News

Blackstone Group said Monday it is not involved in the bidding process for U.K. mining company Rio Tinto in either an investment or advisory role. The...

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