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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 since
by mint2 5y ago
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.
- sheepshagger96 5y agoBut people will be directly employed by said company and that will have knock on effects locally, would you rather not exploit your mineral wealth?
- mplewis 5y agoRead the room.
- mint2 5y agoMining 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.