Bhp Billiton Essay

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Mining and Corporate Social Responsibility: BHP Billiton and The Tintaya Dialogue | Business Strategy and Simulation-BUSN 2275 Case Study 1 | Gaurav Dhiman Student no: 300162969 | Submitted to: Anish Bania | Date: September 20, 2012 | ------------------------------------------------- MINING AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: BHP BILLITON AND THE TINTAYA DIALOGUE CASE SYNOPSIS Deputy Manager of the BHP Billiton Tintaya mine, Lucio Rios who had considered the NGOs as agitators and the threat to Peru’s economic progress became a supporters of the NGO’s and started viewing them as partners. BHP Billiton and Rios engaged the community which later became known as Tintaya Dialogue Table. This change didn’t come off the blue; it was actually the result of Rios’s participation in the Oxfam’s social responsibility training that was conducted in Orissa, India. In late 2000, Oxfam turned on to the Tintaya Copper Mine in Peru with a list of grievances of which most of them had to do with harm to the environment, forceful evacuation of thousands of local residents . Billiton however denied those claims and signed up an agreement with Oxfam to attend training on sustainability and “the impacts of large-scale infrastructure projects on communities” (page 2). Although the alternatives did not aim at solving each problem associated but was still “the most progressive of any mining company in Peru” (Page 6). BACKGROUND BHP Billiton was created through the merger of BHP limited and Billiton plc in 2001. The company does business in mining of precious metals and in the exploration of oil and gas. The company has its business in 26 countries with 35,000 employees over the globe. The Tintaya Copper Mine was established by Peruvian government in 1980 by the expropriating 2,368 hectares of land from local farmers (Exhibit 2). The size of the mine

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