Rhetoric or Reality?
Mining giant Anglo American professes to uphold high standards of corporate responsibility. But the new report, Anglo American’s Track Record: Rhetoric or Reality? shows otherwise.
Rhetoric or Reality? reviews Anglo’s track record regarding enviornmental protection, worker safety, community impacts, and public health problems at many of its major metal mining operations.
Welcome
The Pebble mine is a massive copper/gold mine proposed in southwest Alaska’s Bristol Bay - at the headwaters of the world’s largest remaining wild sockeye salmon fishery.
Keep an Eye on the Pebble Mine
With so much at stake, a mine proposal like this, and the companies behind it need close scrutiny.
December 2nd, 2008
Glenn Miller, professor of natural resources and environmental sciences at the University of Nevada-Reno, wrote an oped piece for the Anchorage Daily News. Dr. Miller warned of the risks the Pebble Mine poses for Alaskans and pointed to the Jerritt Canyon mine in Nevada which Anglo operated through a subsidiary.
- If Anglo American’s past performance is any indication, Alaskans should be wary. At Jerritt Canyon, a modern mine operating under well-established environmental laws, Anglo American’s assurances that it would maintain high environmental standards clearly were not met.
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