Tag Archives: Fortescue Metals Group

Miners hopeful coalition can repeal MRRT

By Tracker, April 9, 2013

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Fortescue Metals Group and junior explorers hope the Minerals Resource Rent Tax (MRRT) will be repealed if the coalition wins the federal election in September, as polls predict.

YAC wants inquiry into its FMG claims

By Tracker, November 29, 2012

CEO of the Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation Michael Woodley. (AAP Image/Lloyd Jones)

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC) has called for a federal inquiry into its allegations that iron ore miner Fortescue Metals “heavied” its way onto land in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

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Twiggy’s FMG accused of rigging Yindjibarndi meeting

By Amy McQuire, November 21, 2012

FMG's Andrew Forrest (left) speaks while Kerry Savas, a lawyer formerly working with FMG, watches on in a screen grab from the video "Great Native Title swindle". Mr Savas has come out and alleged the meeting was a set-up.

NATIONAL: Mining magnate Andrew Forrest’s Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) had a PR battle on its hands when footage of a controversial native title meeting in the Pilbara was released last year. Now a lawyer who formerly worked with FMG has revealed the meeting was indeed a set-up, and that FMG paid attendees who voted at [...]

Posted in General News, News | Also tagged ABC 7:30 Report, Andrew Forrest, Kerry Savas, Mining, Native Title, Pilbara, Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation | 1 Comment

Gillard shrugs off Fortescue job cuts

By Tracker, September 5, 2012

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

NATIONAL: Prime Minister Julia Gillard has shrugged off reports of job cuts and deferred expansion plans at Fortescue Metals Group, saying Australia should look at the bigger picture.

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Fortescue Metals cuts costs

By Tracker, September 4, 2012

Fortescue Metals Group's Andrew Forrest.

NATIONAL: Fortescue Metals Group will cut staff and defer some development work due to falling iron ore prices.

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Fortescue looks to MRRT challenge

By Tracker, March 21, 2012

NATIONAL: A second Australian resource giant is seeking legal advice on challenging the mining profits tax in the High Court.

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Fortescue would have ‘struggled’ with MRRT

By Tracker, February 22, 2012

NATIONAL: Australia’s third-biggest iron ore miner, Fortescue Metals Group, would have struggled to raise the finance it needed if the federal government’s mining tax had been in place, a Senate inquiry has heard.

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Yindjibarndi blocked from mine site: YAC

By Tracker, November 30, 2011

Yindjibarndi document the discovery of an ancient burial site, one of many reportedly under threat by Australian mining.

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: An Aboriginal corporation in the Pilbara says Fortescue Metals Group security officers blocked elders from inspecting threatened sacred sites on traditional land.

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No timeline on Yindjibarndi request: Parliament

By Tracker, November 23, 2011

NATIONAL: The Yindjibarndi Aboriginal Corporation (YAC)’s request for the environment minister to use emergency powers to intervene in a dispute with Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) is being considered but there’s no timeline on a decision, parliament has heard.

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Mining tax nothing for big miners: Forrest

By Tracker, November 10, 2011

NATIONAL: West Australian mining giant Fortescue Metals will pay virtually nothing under the federal government’s mining tax, says the company’s founder and chairman Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest.

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