BHP, Rio Pressured Women to Sign NDAs After Sexual Harassment Complaints: Lawyer December 12, 2024 By Melanie Burton BHP and Rio Tinto have used confidentiality agreements to prevent female employees from speaking about sexual harassment at work, according...
Rio Tinto Faces Pressure From Investors Over Water Contamination Claims February 12, 2024 By Melanie Burton Global mining giant Rio Tinto, which sparked outrage after destroying an ancient Indigenous site in Australia in 2020, faces new...
Australia’s New Hope to Ramp Up Coal Output, Sees Modest Insurance Premium Hikes September 19, 2023 By Melanie Burton and Navya Mittal Australian miner New Hope Group’sCEO Rob Bishop said on Tuesday plans are progressing to double output over the next three...
Major Institutional Investors Ask Glencore to Justify Thermal Coal Development January 6, 2023 By Melanie Burton International investors with $2.2 trillion in assets will ask commodity giant Glencore Plc to show how its development of thermal...
Australia’s High Court Rules Publishers Liable for Facebook Comments September 9, 2021 By Melanie Burton MELBOURNE — Australia’s biggest news publishers including Rupert Murdoch’s the Australian are responsible for comments that readers post on their...
Waste from Chinese-Owned Nickel Plant Spills into Papua New Guinea Bay August 29, 2019 By Melanie Burton and Tom Daly Waste from a nickel plant in Papua New Guinea owned by Metallurgical Corporation of China spilled into the adjacent Basamuk...
Australia Mining Firms Report Some Impact from Cyclones as Clean Up Begins March 25, 2019 By Melanie Burton Mining giants Rio Tinto, BHP Group and Fortescue Metals said their Australian operations had suffered some impact after two cyclones...
Miller Names New Equity Partners: Hands, Lane, Wheeler, Henderson and Speers November 9, 2018 By Melanie Burton Miller Insurance Services LLP announced that it has boosted its partnership with five internal appointments. With effect from Jan. 1,...
BHP Expects Interruption to Australia Iron Ore Exports After Train Derailment November 7, 2018 By Melanie Burton Mining giant BHP Billiton expects some interruption to its Australian iron ore exports after a nearly 3-km-long train loaded with...
Papua New Guinea Quake Kills at Least 14; ExxonMobil Shuts $19B LNG Plant February 27, 2018 By Sonali Paul and Melanie Burton Up to 14 people were killed in landslides and by collapsed buildings during a powerful earthquake in the remote Papua...