Booming Chinese Demand Has Ripples Down Under In Queensland
by Patrick O'Keeffe, Special to CorpWatch
April 16th, 2008

A bauxite mine and a proposed refinery in northern Queensland, Australia, to be
developed by a Chinese mineral company, has divided local and traditional
landowners. Part of a major industrialization scheme, it has also sparked
worries among environmentalists.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15011


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Hear CorpWatch Managing Editor, Pratap Chatterjee, speak from Camp Anaconda, in
Balad, Iraq as he investigates military and private contractors.
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