EDITORIAL: Anglo turns over a new green leaf with coal disposal
Handing over polluting companies to black investors has raised questions about the sincerity of companies such as Anglo and Australia’s South32
14 April 2021 - 05:10
Anglo American marked a major milestone in its efforts to burnish its green credentials last week.
The mining giant, which was formed by Ernest Oppenheimer in 1917 and dominated SA’s economy for much of the past century in which SA’s development was based on fossil fuels, laid out plans to spin off its thermal coal business to shareholders under the name Thungela Resources. ..
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