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Rio Tinto CEO’s restructure blamed for ancient cave blast – Sydney Morning Herald
Rio Tinto boss Jean-Sébastien Jacques oversaw the dismantling of internal controls that former insiders say would have stopped the blasting of Juukan Gorge.
“[He] also apparently authorised the change of direct accountability from asset senior leaders to someone in a centralised role with no skin in the game.”
Under the previous controls,, the loss of the Juukan Gorge “would not have occurred”, Mr Harvey said.
Glynn Cochrane, an adviser at Rio until 2015, agreed, telling the inquiry that Rio had sidelined anthropologists and archaeologists from Aboriginal relations in recent years and had instead hired people with more of a focus on “branding, mar…
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