Western Australia’s peak environmental group and Australia’s leading mining justice advocates will be asking Perth-based uranium miner Paladin Energy some tough questions on environmental and human rights abuses at their African mines during the company’s annual meeting in Perth today.
Charles Roche, Executive Director of the Mineral Policy Institute said, “Today we will be asking Paladin CEO John Borshoff and his Board about corruption allegations against Paladin in Malawi. We are particularly concerned that the student who initially raised these allegations died in suspicious circumstances shortly after publishing details of the corruption.
“In addition, in June 2011 an independent European assessment found there were serious issues with Paladin’s operations in relation to death of workers, inadequate safety equipment, dumping of contaminated water into community water supplies and using local police to brutally suppress striking workers.”
Conservation Council of Western Australia (24.11.11)
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