| | McArthur River, Australia |
 | | The Commonwealth and Northern Territory governments welcomed the project in 1995, as evidenced by the Chief Minister for the NT Parliament’s enthusiasm: “The opportunities for Territorians to get highly skilled, highly paid jobs associated with these expansions are tangible. |
 | | The Northern Territory government must protect the rights of economically impoverished indigenous people and their country.” Johnson says that neither Xstrata nor the government adequately consulted the traditional owners about the mine proposal: “They wouldn’t take any notice of anything, they didn’t talk to any of us. |
 | | Territory Environment Minister Ian Campbell justified his approval of the expansion, “I think it [the approval] sends a signal that is a very useful one to send: you can have development, you can have mining take place, but you can also have a very good outcome for the environment. |
| www.sacredland.org /world_sites_pages/McArthur.html (2001 words) |