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<div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 10px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 31px;">World's Largest Mining Company Breaks With Global Trade Groups That Deny Climate Change</h1></div><div id="utm_campaign" style="margin-top: 10px;"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body js-update-url" data-elid="2518910663" data-authors="Climate Nexus" data-headline="World's Largest Mining Company Breaks With Global Trade Groups That Deny Climate Change" style="margin: 10px; line-height: 24px;"><div class="body-description" style="">One of the world's largest <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/coal" style="text-decoration-line: none;">coal</a> companies is making plans to quit the World Coal Association over a disagreement on <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/climate-change/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate</a> policies.British-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton noted in a <a href="https://www.bhp.com/-/media/documents/ourapproach/operatingwithintegrity/industryassociations/171219_bhpindustryassociationreview.pdf?la=en" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">review</a> of the company's industry associations issued Tuesday that it may end its membership in the international lobbying group and will reconsider its membership in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce due in part to the U.S. planned withdrawal from the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/paris-agreement" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Paris agreement</a>.BHP's review comes on the heels of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/19/bhp-agrees-to-rethink-its-links-to-minerals-council-of-australia" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mounting shareholder pressure</a> to reconsider its memberships with groups that espouse views contrary to the company's stated values. The report affirmed that BHP believes "the warming of the climate is unequivocal, the human influence is clear and physical impacts are unavoidable" and reasserted the company's support for the Paris agreement.As reported by the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/business/energy-environment/australia-mining-company-climate-change.html?r=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times</a>:The move highlights the delicate considerations huge mining companies must contend with as they seek to balance profit with social and environmental awareness.It represents the latest example of a business that is largely built around traditional fossil fuels responding to investor and government concern over climate change. Last week, the oil and gas giant BP <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/business/energy-environment/bp-lightsource-solar.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">said it would spend $200 million</a> to acquire a large stake in a <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/tag/solar" style="text-decoration-line: none;">solar</a> power developer, while Norway's Statoil and France's Total have also made investments in <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/renewable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">renewables</a>.Though carefully worded, B.H.P.'s report also takes issue with the <a href="http://www.ecowatch.com/trump-watch/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Trump</a> administration's unilateral exit from the Paris agreement."While we won't always agree with our industry associations, we will continue to call out material differences where they exist and we will take action where necessary, as we have done today," Geoff Healy, the company's chief external affairs officer, said in a statement.For a deeper dive:<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/19/business/energy-environment/australia-mining-company-climate-change.html?r=0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">New York Times</a>, <a href="https://in.reuters.com/article/us-bhp-coal-climatechange/bhp-says-likely-to-quit-global-coal-lobby-group-idINKBN1ED073" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Reuters</a>, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/dec/19/bhp-could-end-2m-membership-of-minerals-council-over-policy-differences" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">The Guardian</a>, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6e17e770-e46d-11e7-97e2-916d4fbac0da" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">FT</a>, <a href="http://www.dw.com/en/bhp-to-exit-coal-alliance-over-climate-change-policy/a-41853899" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Deutsche Welle</a>, <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-climate-for-coal-just-got-even-chillier-1513678383?mg=prod/accounts-wsj" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">WSJ</a>, <a href="http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2017/12/19/bhp-billiton-threatens-to-leave-world-coal-association-over-climate-policy.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Fox Business</a>For more <a href="http://ecowatch.com/climate-change-news/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">climate change</a> and <a href="http://ecowatch.com/business/renewables/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">clean energy</a> news, you can follow Climate Nexus on <a href="https://twitter.com/ClimateNexus" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Twitter</a> and <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ClimateNexus/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Facebook</a>, and sign up for daily <a href="http://climatenexus.us4.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=d1f5797e59060083034310930&id=7c84c08aaa" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Hot News</a>.<div class="around-the-web" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="around-the-webheadline" style="font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase;">RELATED ARTICLES AROUND THE WEB</div><ul class="around-the-weblist" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none;"><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.bhp.com/environment/climate-change" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">BHP Billiton | Climate change ›</a></li><li class="around-the-webitem"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/carbon-emissions-2456647136.html" class="around-the-weblink" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: normal; display: inline-block; margin-top: 10px;">These 100 Companies Are to Blame for 71% of Greenhouse Gas ... ›</a></li></ul></div></div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">david s ~ lithium bs</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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UNFCCC status: The Business Council of Australia (BCA) member base is made up of 127 CEOs from Australia’s biggest and wealthiest companies.112-113 
The council serves as a “way in” to the world of policy debate for its members.114 It is funded by bigtime polluters that also play a lead role in deciding its priorities, and its president is an executive of a major polluter. The BCA has given almost no nod to the severity of climate change, its causes, or the dire need for mitigation, and it supports the Paris Agreement only insofar as it does not burden businesses. Consistent with this stance, it has opposed climate policies and dismissed key targets of the Paris Agreement as far-fetched. Links to the fossil fuel industry Polluters BHP Billiton, BP, Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell, and RioTinto all pay to get access to BCA’s services.115 Senior staff from RioTinto and BP Australia sit on three of its committees and task forces.116-118 What it says about climate change and its causes Although the BCA participates in UNFCCC negotiations, its website makes no direct reference to the cause or extent of climate change. In fact, the only strong stance BCA has taken on climate change is to highlight short-term economic costs of climate policies and action.119-120 Public stance on the UNFCCC or the Paris Agreement The BCA has asserted it supports Australia’s ratification of the Paris Agreement. However, it has couched this support by stressing the need to meet climate commitments “while maintaining its [BCA’s] international competitiveness and achieving sustainable economic growth.”121 Track record on climate policy ● BCA president on Big Oil’s payroll. As of March 2017, current BCA President Grant King was appointed as a director of BHP Billiton,122 a leading mining corporation with substantial interests in oil and gas, was one of a group of corporations accused last year of polluting the atmosphere to the point of violating human rights.123 Prior to his post at BCA, King also headed other gas and energy companies, including Origin Energy and AGL Gas.122 ● Opposed Australia’s carbon tax. The BCA lobbied against and supported the repeal of Australia’s carbon tax, calling it a “burden on business” and describing its removal as “essential as the first priority.”124 ● Has denounced curbing global warming as “unrealistic.” The BCA has opposed further reductions in Australia’s emissions targets. It argues that Australia should not prioritize decreasing its own emissions due to the fact that other countries have been slow to act.125 ● BCA members at the center of controversial Australian Bight project. BCA members, including oil giants BP and Chevron, have been under fire for their controversial plans to drill for oil in the Great Australian Bight, a nature reserve off the coast of Australia.126 Although BP pulled back from its drilling plans in late 2016 after failing to meet regulatory requirements,127-128 Chevron is still pursuing its US$400 million scheme with BCA at its side.129 ● In BCA’s world, there are no climate risks or liabilities. BCA’s 2014-2015 “A Year in Review” hardly mentioned climate change or mitigating risk to the environment. Its 2015- 2016 annual review also fails to commit to climate change as a priority. It does, however, highlight the important role of gas moving forward.130-131 Its priorities for the year ahead suggest it is only willing to support energy and climate policies that protect industry interests and “support competitiveness.”<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">
<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The campaign targets fossil fuel lobbyists and climate change skeptics.</h2>

For more information on the Climate Criminals of COP 21 campaign see this <a href="https://avaazmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/Climate_Criminals_Report.pdf">campaign page</a> for #ClimateCriminals.

A new <a href="https://avaazmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/Climate_Criminals_Report.pdf" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid">campaign</a> spearheaded

by global advocacy organization Avaaz targets seven fossil fuel

lobbyists and climate change skeptics who are in Paris for the COP21

climate conference.

Avaaz, which organized <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/live/2015/nov/29/global-peoples-climate-change-march-2015-day-of-action-live" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid">hundreds of thousands</a> of

people across the globe to march in favor of a strong climate

agreement, posted more than 1,000 wanted posters near some of the city’s

top hotels on Monday morning to catch the eyes of influential

conference attendees. Avaaz volunteers also passed out flyers featuring

the lobbyists’ photos at metro stations near the conference.

“These lobbyists have come to Paris to

sabotage a global deal for ambitious climate action, despite over 3.6

million citizens around the world calling for 100 percent clean energy,”

Avaaz’s acting executive director, Emma Ruby-Sachs, said in a

statement. “Ministers must listen to their people, not polluters, and

refuse meetings with climate criminals who want to derail a deal the

whole world wants.”

The Avaaz campaign targets <a href="https://avaazmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/Climate_Criminals_Report.pdf" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid">seven individuals</a> who,

according to the organization, are “renowned for their backroom

dealings to to stop the transition to clean energy.” They are:

<ul><li>Benjamin Sporton, chief executive of the World Coal Association;</li><li>Fiona Wild, vice president of environment and climate change at mining company BHP Billiton;</li><li>Marc Morano, founder of climate skeptic site ClimateDepot.com;</li><li>Myron Ebell, director of the <a href="https://cei.org/issues/energy-and-environment" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid">Competitive Enterprise Institute</a>, a libertarian think tank that opposes cap-and-trade and greenhouse gas regulations;</li><li>Chris Horner, a global warming skeptic <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/bankruptcy/2015/10/15/alpha-natural-discloses-payments-to-climate-change-skeptic-chris-horner/" target="blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid">accused</a> of harassing climate scientists;</li><li>Bjorn Lomborg, author of The Skeptical Environmentalist and

founder of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a group that has advocated

prioritizing other global problems ahead of climate change;</li><li>James Taylor, senior fellow at The Heartland Institute, a libertarian think tank that says there’s no <a href="https://www.heartland.org/issues/environment" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid">consensus on global warming</a>.</li></ul>

Avaaz outlined its reasons for selecting these people in a “<a href="https://avaazmedia.s3.amazonaws.com/Climate_Criminals_Report.pdf" target="_blank" data-beacon="{" p="p" mnid="mnid" entry_text="entry_text" lnid="lnid" citation="citation" mpid="mpid">dossier</a>” released on Monday.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_BillitonBHP Billiton is an <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Anglo</a>-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Australian</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multinational_corporation" title="Multinational corporation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">multinational</a> mining, metals and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum" title="Petroleum" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">petroleum</a> company headquartered in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Melbourne</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia" title="Australia" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Australia</a>. It is the world's largest mining company measured by 2013 revenues.BHP Billiton was created in 2001 through the merger of the Australian Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) and the Anglo–Dutch Billiton plc.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#cite_note-merger-4" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[4]</a> The result is a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-listed_company" title="Dual-listed company" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">dual-listed company</a>. The Australia-registered BHP Billiton Limited, which has equal financial share in the company, has a primary listing on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Securities_Exchange" title="Australian Securities Exchange" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Australian Securities Exchange</a> and is the largest company in Australia measured by market capitalisation. The UK-registered BHP Billiton Plc has a primary listing on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Stock_Exchange" title="London Stock Exchange" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">London Stock Exchange</a> and is a constituent of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTSE_100_Index" title="FTSE 100 Index" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">FTSE 100 Index</a>. It had a market capitalisation of approximately £41.5 billion ($69.5 billion) as of 19 August 2014. On August 19, 2014, BHP Billiton announced it would create an independent global metals and mining company based on a selection of its aluminium, coal, manganese, nickel and silver assets.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#cite_note-bhpbilliton.com-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> A newly formed entity named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South32" title="South32" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">South32</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#cite_note-bhpbilliton.com-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a> will house the company's non-core assets. Capitalized at $15 billion, the new entity will be listed on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Securities_Exchange" title="Australian Securities Exchange" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Australian Securities Exchange</a> with a secondary inward listing on the Johannesburg bourse and a standard listing on the London market.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#cite_note-bhpbilliton.com-5" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[5]</a><div class="toclimit-3" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 22.4px;"><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;">Contents</h2>  [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>] </div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#History" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1 History</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Billiton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.1 Billiton</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Broken_Hill_Proprietary_Company" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.2 Broken Hill Proprietary Company</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#2001_to_2011" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.3 2001 to 2011</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#2011_to_present" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">1.4 2011 to present</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Corporate_affairs" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2 Corporate affairs</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Senior_management" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">2.1 Senior management</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Operations" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3 Operations</a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Current" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.1 Current</a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Former" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">3.2 Former</a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Corporate_social_responsibility" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">4 Corporate social responsibility</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Environmental_responsibility" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">5 Environmental responsibility</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#Accidents" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">6 Accidents</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#See_also" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">7 See also</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">8 References</a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-17" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BHP_Billiton#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">9 External links</a></li></ul></div></div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">=<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.2px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">David Jenkins Director of BHP Limited since March 2000. Director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/BHP_Billiton" title="BHP Billiton" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BHP Billiton</a> Limited and BHP Billiton Plc since June 2001. Dr Jenkins was re-elected in 2007.

"David Jenkins is a recognised authority on oil and gas technology. He was previously Chief Geologist, Director Technology and Chief Technology Advisor to <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/BP" title="BP" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BP</a> Plc. He was also a member of the Technology Advisory Committee of the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Halliburton" title="Halliburton" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Halliburton</a> Company and the Advisory Council of Consort Resources and Chairman of the Energy Advisory Panel of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Science_Applications_International_Corporation" title="Science Applications International Corporation" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Science Applications International Corporation</a>.

<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Director of <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Orion_International_Petroleum&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Orion International Petroleum (page does not exist)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Orion International Petroleum</a> (Gibraltar) Limited (since June 2007) <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Jenkins#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; white-space: nowrap; background: none;">[1]</a></li>

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<li id="cite_note-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/David_Jenkins#cite_ref-1" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up↑</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bhpbilliton.com/bb/aboutUs/companyOverview/ourBoard.jsp" style="text-decoration: none; padding-right: 13px; background: url(" data:image="data:image" png="png" base64="base64" ivborw0kggoaaaansuheugaaaaoaaaakcayaaacnms="iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAoAAAAKCAYAAACNMs" aaaaveleqvr42n3pgqkaiaheuxdqj3dqj3e6iotpusqcgj4eq5iluile0jil3pecxhchgbhz8kg4hwxau3mzecgeyfnaxp4hqnqpnt7ql0nadpd6whcclvnakksq8iiaaaaaaelftksuqmcc="AAAAVElEQVR42n3PgQkAIAhEUXdqJ3dqJ3e6IoTPUSQcgj4EQ5IlUiLE0Jil3PECXhcHGBhZ8kg4hwxAu3MZeCGeyFnAXp4hqNQPnt7QL0nADpD6wHccLvnAKksq8iiaAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC" no-repeat="no-repeat" xmlns:data="data">Directors</a>, BHP Billiton, accessed March 7, 2008.</li>

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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div>A global coalition of 25 institutional investors with over forty five billion pounds in assets under management is calling on nine major publicly listed companies to review their membership of lobbying groups that seek to undermine EU climate policy.</div><div>
</div><div>The investors have written to BHP Billiton, BP, EDF, Glencore, Johnson Matthey, Proctor and Gamble, Rio Tinto, Statoil and Total expressing concern that the companies declared climate policies are undermined by membership of lobby groups with a track record of obstructive lobbying on climate change policy. The move comes as companies have come under increasing pressure to withdraw from regressive lobbying groups, with Unilever leaving Business Europe and BP and Shell exiting ALEC over climate policy.</div><div>
</div><div>http://www.alternet.org/environment/ftse-100-firms-pressured-leave-anti-climate-lobbying-groups</div></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Ok Tedi Mine has been a subject of controversy because its tailings killed all aquatic life along 70 kilometers of the Ok Tedi River of Papua New Guinea following pollution by tailings and waste rock. Court suits by indigenous landowners forced B.H.P. Billiton of Australia, owner of the mine, to reach an out-of-court settlement for $550 million Australian. Members of communities affected by the mine's pollution blockaded and shut it down on November 25, 2001, costing the company close to U.S. $1 million in lost production.Late in 2001, B.H.P. Billiton convinced the Papua New Guinea government to endorse three acts of legislation affecting the Ok Tedi Mine which "have caused an uproar in the environmental and human rights communities who say that the company will escape responsibility for the damage it has caused to the environment and communities living near the Ok Tedi in the western province of Papua New Guinea." (<a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/IPEIE/IJ_PNG.html#DT1201" style="text-decoration: none;">B.H.P. Billiton, 2001</a>) According to a summary provided by Slater and Gordon, an Australian law firm that has filed a lawsuit against the company, the agreements will give B.H.P. and Ok Tedi Mining "unrestricted legal indemnity for the pollution and destruction caused now and into the future by the operations of the Ok Tedi mine. The mine's owners will have no obligation to stop tailings entering the river system in future, and will be permitted to increase the amount of copper it is currently permitted to dump into the river system." (<a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/IPEIE/IJ_PNG.html#DT1201" style="text-decoration: none;">B.H.P. Billiton, 2001</a>) The agreements release Billiton from any liability under an ongoing suit in Australia's Victorian Supreme Court; under the same agreements, landowners also lose their common-law rights to enforce a 1996 settlement as well as any future legal rights to sue the mine for any environmental damage.At about the same time, representatives from four indigenous communities living near the mine presented a petition demanding compensation and a share of B.H.P. Billiton's 52 per cent stake in Ok Tedi. The local people also demanded compensation for environmental damage from the date the mine opened (1981) to the present. The government of Papua New Guinea denied a request from local landowners to grant them 12 per cent of the benefits from the Program Trust Company, to which B.H.P. Billiton's interest in the mine was sold in 2002. (<a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/IPEIE/IJ_PNG.html#HPNGDT02" style="text-decoration: none;">Hotspots: Papua, 2001</a>)Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Sir Mekere Morauta, has called the Ok Tedi Mine a national asset. Morauta argues that closure of the mine could devastate the nation's economy and cause the ruin of communities that depend on it. The mine accounts for 10 percent of Papua New Guinea's gross national product and 20 per cent of its export income.As the mine's owners were sealing their deal with the Papua New Guinea government, the Australian Conservation Foundation issued a report saying that nearly 70 kilometers of the Ok Tedi River has become "almost biologically dead," and 130 kilometers of riverbank have been "severely degraded." Fish stocks have declined between 50 per cent and 80 per cent, according to the mine's own internal report. Roughly 30,000 downstream landowners have lost their ability to live off their own land. A scientific Peer Review Group employed by the mine's management identified potential for a total collapse of the fishery. (<a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/IPEIE/IJ_PNG.html#DT1201" style="text-decoration: none;">B.H.P. Billiton, 2001</a>)In addition to widespread logging on traditional lands in West Papua, some of the world's largest transnational mining corporations have been active in exploiting the island's oil and minerals, including Union Oil, Amoco, Agip, Conoco, Phillips, Esso, Texaco, Mobil, Shell, Petromer Trend Exploration, Atlantic Richfield, Sun Oil and Freeport (United States of America); Oppenheimer (South Africa); Total (France); Ingold (Canada); Marathon Oil, Kepala Burung (United Kingdom); Dominion Mining, Aneka Tambang, B.H.P., Cudgen R.Z., and C.R.A. (Australia). Petromer Trend and Conoco have produced 300 million barrels of oil from the field at Sele near Sorong, valued at an estimated $4.5 billion. (<a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/IPEIE/IJ_PNG.html#RBGT" style="text-decoration: none;">Resource Boom, N.d.</a>) Mining concessions in the Ertsberg and Grasberg mountains, the Paniai and Wissel Lakes region, Fak Fak, the Baliem Valley, the "Bird's Head" western tip and the Papua New Guinea border area, involving dislocation and suppression of Papuan peoples have sparked popular uprisings followed by military reprisals.By early 2002, B.H.P. Billiton had officially exited Papua New Guinea leaving behind operations at the Ok Tedi gold mine, leaving 30,000 people displaced by pollution. The company admitted in 1999 that the "sediment load" (a build-up of waste rock or tailings) has caused a 90 per cent fish kill in the lower Ok Tedi River. (<a href="http://www.ratical.org/ratville/IPEIE/IJ_PNG.html#HPNGDT02" style="text-decoration: none;">Hotspots: Papua, 2002</a>)</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">==</div>

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