Rio Tinto giving back to northern B.C. Rio Tinto provided funding for summer interns from the Freshwater Fisheries Society of B.C. to conduct programs to help re-establish the Nechako white sturgeon population in 2021. (Rio Tinto handout photo)
Citizen Staff
Rio Tinto invested $2.2 million in community initiative across B.C. last year, up by $200,000 from 2020. In a statement issued in February, the international resource company said it helped support 38 B.C. organizations in areas including culture, heritage,
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community, education, health, reducing inequality and the environment. Rio Tinto owns and operates the BC Works aluminum smelter in Kitimat, which runs on hydroelectric power provided by the Nechako River watershed. The majority of the organizations supported are
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