British and Australian investment funds said on Monday that Rio Tinto’s testimony last week over its destruction of ancient caves in Australia raised questions about the accountability of its senior leadership.<\/p>\n
Rio CEO Jean-S\u00e9bastien Jacques was grilled by an Australian Senate panel on Friday over how the company had legally destroyed two prehistoric rock shelters, causing deep distress to their Aboriginal owners.<\/p>\n
Jacques told the inquiry that neither he nor other senior leaders had read a key archaeological report outlining the significance of a rock shelter showing continual human habitation before the last ice age 46 000 years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that Rio Tinto\u2019s senior management had not reviewed a critical report about the site itself calls into question the company\u2019s governance and oversight processes," Councillor Doug McMurdo, chair of Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF), said in a statement.<\/p>\n
"If there had been an effective community engagement process in place, it is hard to see how this tragedy could have occurred."<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
British and Australian investment funds said on Monday that Rio Tinto’s testimony last week over its destruction of ancient caves in Australia raised questions about the accountability of its senior leadership.<\/p>\n
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