Rio Tinto Now Has a Pair of 60-Year-Old Legal Problems in Canada
- Supreme Court allows Aboriginals to sue over events from 1950s
- Quebec and B.C. First Nations get together to discuss strategy
Rio Tinto's 60-Year Old Legal Problem
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Rio Tinto Group has found trouble on both ends of Canada just as its woes -- and those of all commodity producers -- intensify everywhere.
The global mining giant is being told it can’t skirt a pair of lawsuits that reach back to projects built in the 1950s, a quarter-century before it first set foot in the country.