Digging Deep
- When?
- Thursday 24 June 2010, 13:00
- Where?
- 45B AZ 04
- Open to:
- Public, Staff, Students
- Speaker:
- Dr Peter Argust, Rio Tinto
Mineral extraction projects have frequently found themselves at the fault lines of competing interests. Expectations to safeguard habitat, water, climate, and human rights have not always been reconciled with expectations to enhance living standards and economic prosperity.
Dramatic population growth, industrialisation and urbanisation is underway in China and India in particular. This has triggered a wave of mineral exploration and development during the first decade of the 21st century on a scale not seen since the western industrial revolution. And so the fault lines widen. Peter will reflect on a decade of change for the global resources sector as part of a conversation about how civil society and business have responded to these challenges in different ways as well as discussing possibilities for the future.