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Rio Tinto CEO loses $3.5M over destroyed indigenous sites
Read full article: Rio Tinto CEO loses $3.5M over destroyed indigenous sitesProtesters rally outside the Rio Tinto office in Perth, Australia, June 9, 2020. Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will lose around $3.5 million in bonuses due to the destruction in May of Australian indigenous sacred sites, the mining company said on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. (Richard Wainwright/AAP Image via AP)CANBERRA Rio Tinto chief executive Jean-Sebastien Jacques will lose around $3.5 million in bonuses due to the destruction of Australian Indigenous sacred sites to access iron ore, the mining company said on Monday. The destruction of the rock shelters should not have happened and we are absolutely committed to listening, learning and changing, Rio Tinto said in a statement. The Western Australian government has promised to update Indigenous heritage laws that allowed Rio Tinto to legally destroy the sacred sites.