Comments on: The Detroit News: New era for Michigan mining http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-detroit-news-new-era-for-michigan-mining/ Stop Sulfide Mining In Upper Michigan Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:12:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jack Parker http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-detroit-news-new-era-for-michigan-mining/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Jack Parker Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:16:44 +0000 http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/?p=1157#comment-360 Jim: You seem to have missed the crucial point, which would be clear if you studied the application (for a permit to mine) - that the document is shoddy, deceptive and fraudulent - and should, by law, therefore be rejected. There is no need to argue over side issues. Jack Parker Toivola MI 49965 Jim:

You seem to have missed the crucial point, which would be clear if you studied the application (for a permit to mine) – that the document is shoddy, deceptive and fraudulent – and should, by law, therefore be rejected.

There is no need to argue over side issues.

Jack Parker
Toivola MI 49965

]]> By: Jeffery http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/the-detroit-news-new-era-for-michigan-mining/comment-page-1/#comment-359 Jeffery Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:30:50 +0000 http://www.savethewildup.org/blog/?p=1157#comment-359 Here;s but one example of who you are going to be dealing with my fellow Upper Peninsula friends. Read it and ask yourself one question - if other countries in Europe don't want to have anything to do with these bums, why in God's name would you? PLEASE READ Rio Tinto, one of Britain's most blue-chip corporate names, has been thrown out of a sovereign wealth fund's investment portfolio for potentially subjecting it to "grossly unethical conduct" through its involvement in the world's biggest gold mine. Norway's finance minister, Kirsten Halvorsen, said yesterday that it was selling off the £500m stake held in Rio Tinto by its Government Pension Fund-Global, commonly known as the "oil fund". Halvorsen said the problems with Rio Tinto, the world's second-largest iron ore miner, concerned a joint venture with Freeport McMoRan, a company excluded by the fund in 2006, at a mining operation in the Indonesian province of Papua. "Exclusion of a company from the fund reflects our unwillingness to run an unacceptable risk of contributing to grossly unethical conduct," she said. "The council on ethics has concluded that Rio Tinto is directly involved, through its participation in the Grasberg mine in Indonesia, in the severe environmental damage caused by that mining operation. "There are no indications to the effect that the company's practices will be changed in future, or that measures will be taken to significantly reduce damage to nature and the environment," she added in a formal statement posted on the ministry's website. Here;s but one example of who you are going to be dealing with my fellow Upper Peninsula friends. Read it and ask yourself one question – if other countries in Europe don’t want to have anything to do with these bums, why in God’s name would you?

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Rio Tinto, one of Britain’s most blue-chip corporate names, has been thrown out of a sovereign wealth fund’s investment portfolio for potentially subjecting it to “grossly unethical conduct” through its involvement in the world’s biggest gold mine.

Norway’s finance minister, Kirsten Halvorsen, said yesterday that it was selling off the £500m stake held in Rio Tinto by its Government Pension Fund-Global, commonly known as the “oil fund”.

Halvorsen said the problems with Rio Tinto, the world’s second-largest iron ore miner, concerned a joint venture with Freeport McMoRan, a company excluded by the fund in 2006, at a mining operation in the Indonesian province of Papua.

“Exclusion of a company from the fund reflects our unwillingness to run an unacceptable risk of contributing to grossly unethical conduct,” she said. “The council on ethics has concluded that Rio Tinto is directly involved, through its participation in the Grasberg mine in Indonesia, in the severe environmental damage caused by that mining operation.

“There are no indications to the effect that the company’s practices will be changed in future, or that measures will be taken to significantly reduce damage to nature and the environment,” she added in a formal statement posted on the ministry’s website.

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