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.