.….FIRB members provide advice to the treasurer on contentious investment proposals. Douglass joins expanded FIRB board Sydney Morning Herald JACOB SAULWICK December 11, 2009
THE fund manager and former investment banker Hamish Douglass has been appointed to the Foreign Investment Review Board, giving him a front-row seat to some of the country’s biggest corporate deals. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘BHPB watch’
BHP Billiton’s connection with Australia’s foreign investment policy
December 14, 2009BHP Billiton still not coming clean on Olympic Dam
November 9, 2009Incidental damage The Age 9 Nov 09 A MONTH has passed since ”an incident” occurred at BHP Billiton’s underground uranium and copper mine at Olympic Dam in South Australia, but the mining giant is still no closer to coming clean on what happened. (more…)
Olympic Dam uranium mine to cut jobs
November 6, 2009Olympic mine job losses The Age BARRY FITZGERALD November 7, 2009 BHP Billiton has warned of job losses among its contractor workforce at the damaged Olympic Dam copper-gold-uranium mine in South Australia (more…)
BHP shares down as OLympic Dam uranium mine stalls
October 22, 2009BHP warns of Olympic Dam disruption until 2010 Guardian.co.uk. 22 Oct 09 Following yesterday’s mixed production report from Xstrata, comes a similar theme from BHP Billiton. “………. (more…)
Uranium mine jobs could be lost at Olympic Dam
October 22, 2009Long outage expected for Olympic Dam THE AUSTRALIAN Matt Chambers | October 22, 2009 BHP Billiton has confirmed that damage to its Olympic Dam underground copper and uranium mine, caused by a plummeting fully loaded ore skip, will keep the operation at one-quarter capacity for up to six months. …… (more…)
Dodgy deals with aborigines over uranium mine expansion
September 6, 2009Aboriginal people
BHP Billiton asserts they have reached amicable agreements with the traditional owners of the land. The evidence does not support this. (more…)
BHP Billiton shareholders oppose expansion of Olympic Dam uranium mine
September 2, 2009Olympic Dam opponents willing to sacrifice dividends
ABC News 27 Aug 09A group of BHP Billiton shareholders who oppose the expansion of the Olympic Dam mine say they would rather forego any dividends from the project than see the environment damaged.
The BHP Shareholders for Social Responsibility group is made up of long-term shareholders from across the nation………………..
“Some shareholders are of the view that we can forego some of our dividends by looking to do things better environmentally or socially,” he said.
He says the mine will create a poisonous legacy for the future.
Roxby Downs Council unhappy with BHPB’s plans for uranium workers’accommodation
September 2, 2009ABC West Coast South Australia 26 August 09
The Roxby Downs Council says the remote location of the accommodation village proposed during the expansion of BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine robs the local community of possible financial benefits. (more…)
Radiation warning for BHP Olympic Dam expansion
September 2, 2009perth now
Steve Larkin
August 24, 2009
BHP Billiton has been told by governments to provide more information on radiation risks of the proposed expansion of the company’s Olympic Dam mine. (more…)
Calls to move BHPB’s desal plant plans for Roxby Downs uranium mine
September 2, 2009Australian environment body calls for shifting of BHP Billiton’s desalination plant domain-b.com news 24 August 2009 Environmental concerns over mining major, BHP Billiton’s expansion plans at Roxy Downs have come to the fore with the Australian Conservation Foundation calling for the shifting of a desalination plant from Upper Spencer Gulf in South Australia (more…)
