Do the sins of the father accrue to the son?  Does the new Anglo American’s Cynthia Carroll bear responsibility for pollution in Africa, Nevada, and Ireland caused by the old Anglo American?  Do ten swallows make a summer?  Does one fuck-up preclude you developing the Pebble Mine in Alaska?

Valid questions that come to mind as I read the report Anglo American’s Track Record:  Rhetoric or Reality?  Here is a summary that came with the e-mail announcing publication of this provocative report:

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Can mining exploration cause the flu?  Here is a posting from a rather trivial blog, but it nicely captures the perspectives of the folk who get to make the final decisions.  This is from Emily Locke who writes from Anchorage, Alaska:

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