New Zealand's environment minister has threatened Australian mining giant Rio Tinto with legal action over what he says is an"outrageous" failure to deal with toxic waste from an aluminium plant.
Rio Tinto stores the waste from its Tiwai Point aluminium smelter in a disused paper mill in the South Island town, an hour away. The waste has remained in Matuara for a number of years after the company which Rio Tinto contracted to remove it went broke.The government cut a deal with local authorities and Rio Tinto to remove the waste, and last week, local council executive Stephen Parry said he'd reached a deal"based on a good old-fashioned Southland handshake" to speed up the move - only for Rio Tinto to back out.
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