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Fortescue regrets causing offence with threat of legal action during bid to destroy Aboriginal sites in Pilbara – The Guardian
CEO tells inquiry letter did not reflect miner’s ‘close consultative approach’ to Indigenous people
Mining giant Fortescue Metals Group has said it regrets the offence caused by a letter it sent threatening legal action if an application for permission to destroy Aboriginal heritage sites in the Pilbara was not progressed.
Fortescues chief executive, Elizabeth Gaines, told a federal parliamentary inquiry the letter concerned points of law to be considered by a Western Australian government committee and did not reflect Fortescues close consultative approach with Aboriginal people.
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