Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal caves (2020)

Re:Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal cav... by mint2 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:15PM (#27988344)

Oak flat in Arizona seems sacred to the longtime local inhabitants, rio tinto’s “oops were sorry we blew up your sacred site” about Australia doesn’t seem sincere given they have spent years trying to implode oak flat and are still at it.

But hey Arizonans will get a handful of jobs for a couple decades while the mineral wealth that belongs to Americans is funneled to a select few.

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Re:Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal cav... by sheepshagger96 on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @03:50PM (#27988868)

But people will be directly employed by said company and that will have knock on effects locally, would you rather not exploit your mineral wealth?

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Re:Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal cav... by mint2 on Thursday July 29, 2021 @12:17AM (#27992729)

Mining booms don’t tend to have longevity, leaving behind a broken town and damaged environment.

And With an international mining company, The wealth isn’t staying local or even likely in America.

And as tax payers, the public is getting shafted too. If the lease actually had American tax payers seeing a fair share in return for their land being damaged and the wealth used up, and there was also an amenable compromise with the native Americans for whom that site is sacred, then yeah it could be okay even if it would be temporary jobs.

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Re:Mining firm Rio Tinto sorry for destroying Aboriginal cav... by mplewis on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @04:26PM (#27989287)

Read the room.

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