INDUSTRY COMMENT

Resources sector's PR nightmare

IF THERE is one clear lesson from last week's COP21 climate summit, it's that the extractives sector has an enormous political relations problem and could face a nightmare raft of new regulations, Vale Australia's former general counsel Robert Milbourne writes for Australia's Mining Monthly.

Robert Milbourne

Climate sceptics still abound, but there now seems near-universal agreement that mitigation and abatement are appropriate insurance policies for future generations regardless of the current science.  ...

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