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Interview With Tony Holland on Criminality in Rio Tinto Uranium Operations
RE: Ms Sharon Singh and her friendships in the Australian Underworld.
Further developments have occurred this week, involving 3 murders and several armed robberies, which may well have very serious repercussions for Ms Singh and her associates. It could well be incumbent on the Minister to read **The Sunday Herald sun**, 14th Sept 2014, outlining that Melb solicitor John Anile is before the courts accused of being an associate of the **generals gang** which specifically has laundered over 10 million dollars of stolen money and murdered 3 people over the last 20 years.
That Ms Singh knows Mr. Anile is beyond question, and, it is known that Ms Singh entered into transactions with Mr. Anile and several organized crime figures here regarding premises which were subsequently used to convert stolen cars and grow marijuana at 155 Cherry Lane Laverton and that Ms Singh’s name was on a lease for those premises, alongside that of a known senior criminal, Paul Reed, Reed himself a convicted murderer.
I assert once again that Minister Boyd, should be very careful with any Submissions Ms Singh may make to the minister, and I ask once more, he read todays Herald Sun, Canadian police might then be asked to background Ms Singh and her associates. Tony Holland http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/dna-swoop-on-richmond-roadgang-robbery/story-fni0fee2-1227057677071?nk=75b6b08b79ce2d7bfd86ab1a85d8dbbc
Tony Holland
Hi all
Recent broadcast
interviews....on how RIO TINTO are conning the government of Saskatchewan,
by:
a) Promising jobs to business..when few jobs will be
given to locals.
b) Promising local business opportunities to locals
..when few local businesses will be sourced.
c) Promising Government that the drilling program is
safe....when, in alarge submission made by RIO and refered to as the EIS
report a 1 line admission that the dust isn't controlled appears.
d) Neglecting any discussion on milling programs and
tailings program.
e) Using Personal well known for lying to senior
people to present untruths to the Saskatchewan Government and Saskatchewan
people.
( It doesn’t get much better than Ms
Singh from Rio Tinto posing as a media liaison person when in fact she is a
trained lawyer with several yrs experience presenting paperwork for
government approvals. Its like a police office telling a suspect that he is
free as long as he admits every aspects of the crime
which
the officer then goes on to outline.)
It is my earnest wish that Minister Boyd look into
some of my concerns for the people of Saskatchewan to prevent large scale
environmental damage and large scale health problems occurring in the not
too distant future.
Tony Holland
AUDIO http://www.jar2.com/_private/_02/140904_Holland.zip http://www.jar2.com/_private/_02/140828_HOLLAND.zip
Hello this is John Robles.
You are listening to an interview with Tony Holland, he is a security
specialist and a geopolitical analyst.
Robles:
Hello Tony, how are you?
Holland: Oh hi
John, how are you?
Robles: Very
well thank you and nice to be speaking with you. Could you give us a little
background now on this Rio Tinto Roughrider Advanced Exploration Program?
Holland: It’s
the typical uranium con trick. They tend to find ore, or a probable mining
project, in areas where people have a low education and they are wide open
to promises of this is a project that’s coming your way, you’re going to
make a lot of money and you’re going to get lots of jobs and lots of
business. In fact a typical scam line is: “we have ten thousand projects a
year of which only three will result in a mine. And guess what guys, you’re
Number 1”
Robles:
Can you tell us, you have a unique background in this, and you have
experience with these … this scheme and uranium mining …
Holland: My
first job, about 40 years ago, was developing Rössing Uranium Mine in South
West Africa, so I think I’d be uniquely qualified to talk about uranium
mining to anybody, from a so-called expert to somebody coming into it, and
I’m concerned with this Roughrider Program simply because Rio already admits
that it can’t control the dust that will be produced in this mine.
Now bear in mind, that dust is
uranium dust. You breathe a cupful of that; a year later you will die. No
question about that.
Robles: Give
us some details, if you could, some facts on it?
Holland: What
you’ve got, you’ve got an ore body in the ground, and that’s basically a
rock, and inside that rock there’s a provable grade of ore that you’re
after. In this case that ore is uranium. When you drill into that rock you
naturally produce dust. There cannot be any other way you can’t not produce
dust.
So when they are drilling on this
Program you’re going to get uranium dust. There is no other way to say it.
You will not get anything but dust. You will get the ore, of course you will
get the ore body on the core of the drill, but you are going to get dust,
and Rio have already admitted they are going to produce lots of dust, and
that dust they’re producing far exceeds the allowable uranium dust, uranium
type that won’t cause you illness or death.
Robles:
Who is controlling this, and where are they trying to do this
mining, and what’s going on with that? Aren’t there regulatory bodies in
Canada that should be watching this?
Holland: The
Minister Bill Boyd has responded to my concerns by putting my concerns in
the public domain under his umbrella, and he sent a letter which I forwarded
to you, and I hope you will put that letter in your article.
It is Minister Boyd who has to
regulate mining and the environment. This “Advanced”, they are now calling
it an Advanced, Rio’s calling it an Advanced Exploration Program, the EIS
study on that, as admitted to Minister Boyd now that they can’t control the
uranium dust.
Robles:
Now I understand there’s indigenous issues involved here. What’s going on
with that?
Holland: This is
absolutely dreadful. There’s nations, Mongolia and Bougainville for
instance, that have had the same spiel given to them, basically: “look guys,
we’ve found a mine here and you’re going to be rich”. Only to find that
there’s no jobs offered to locals, as has been promised, and no money coming
to locals as has been promised, because what Rio does is they go in there,
and they say: “look we are going to give you 34% of the project for free. We
are going to build this project, and we’ll take 64% to cover our costs, and
our side of the bargain.”
With that 64%, of course, it has
to be paid before the 34% is paid to the locals, and of course what Rio does
is they put very expensive people into that project. The managing director
or CEO of Rio gets paid $6 million simply by booking his time into this
project, as the guy giving the controlling guidance to the project, and the
locals never get to see any money.
Right now, as we speak, Mongolia
is complaining that they’ve had too many … they were promised 34% of a
project called Oyu Tolgoi, and they’re receiving very little money simply
because Rio’s getting every penny it can to pay itself back.
Just to remind you, you are
listening to an interview with tony Holland.
Robles:
Can you give us some background on this RioTinto?
Holland: Well
Rio are one of the world’s biggest miners, and they tend to exploit nations,
not the local people. But nations are suffering, Mongolia is up in arms
about them, Bougainville actually had a civil war that lasted for 20 years,
and they’ve kicked them out. People are waking up to the practices of Rio.
Nobody likes to be conned.
Robles:
Can you give us some of your background. Now you had some contacts with
somebody?
Holland: I know
one of the lawyers, Sharon Singh, who came to Australia and left under a
cloud. A criminal, she was arrested several times, there’s several thefts
pending, and she rocked up to Rio Tinto in Canada, and I thought “wow,
what’s she doing?” And she is the one preparing this environmental study.
It’s like “Wow, is it Rio know the type of lawyers to bring on board to make
a submission to the government.”
Robles:
I’m sorry, she’s a lawyer, and she’s drawing up environmental studies by
herself, or what? Is there a panel or something?
Holland: Let me
help you out with the concept of a lawyer. They get a law degree, like
Sharon has got, but then their character is assessed whether or not they can
practice law, and if it’s said “well hang on, she’s a bit of a crook”, they
don’t give them a practicing certificate to practice.
Now Sharon is that type of
lawyer. She’s very bright legally, but she has a mind that says “what’s in
this for me?” So right now she’s posing to the First Nation in Saskatchewan
as a media liaison person ready, willing and able to go up there and talk to
them about issues regarding this environmental study that they all have to
sign off on as being a bona fide thing.
But she is not telling them about
her background, her criminal background. She actually has worked with
organised crime here in Australia.
Robles:
So her victim now is who exactly in Canada?
Holland: Oh, you
only have to think the First Nation in Saskatchewan are going to be dudded.
First, very, very big time, they control dust with water, they sprinkle
water on it, but then you are left with slurry. This slurry generally gets
put into a dam. Now it’s a case of “tailings”, well they call it tailings,
right.
Robles:
What’s that?
Holland: It’s a
process that has a chemical leach in it to get the, when they crush up rock,
they use a chemical to leach out the ore. Then it’s left with a rock slurry
that’s got residual uranium particles in it. That slurry goes into what’s
called a dam - they haven’t even started to control that yet - what they’re
trying to control is the dust produced with drills, that’s drilling into the
rock, the uranium rock.
You can
see these local Indians are going to be breathing in very rich uranium
particles, and this is admitted. So if they are going to be breathing it in,
or fish are going to be drinking it, or animals are going to breathe it in,
it’s going to cause lots of problems, lots of problems.
Robles:
Now, have you contacted the First Nations people there?
Holland:
No, I’ve only dealt with the government so far, and as I say, Minister Boyd
is putting my comments on the public record. I would love to talk to First
Nation, but I’ve sent them an e-mail but I haven’t had a reply.
Robles:
Saskatchewan right? If you want … I can get you in touch with some people
that would I think love to talk to you.
Holland:
Oh absolutely. They need to know John, they need to know. You walk anywhere
near … you go anywhere near that site you are going to be breathing enriched
– when I talk about enriched I don’t mean enriched weapon grade uranium –
but I mean you are going to be breathing dust that has uranium particles in
it, which are admitted by Rio to be far in excess of what would be normal.
Robles:
Now these projects, how far along are they in Saskatchewan? Have they been
approved, are they going ahead with them, have they begun, or what’s the
actual …?.
Holland:
Ah, well this is where the con is getting rather good, because as I told you
to begin with, Rio says … goes in, and you can read this in their
Environmental Impact Study, the EIS, with the spiel “we’ve got 10 thousand
exploration sites and only three are going to result in a mine, and guess
what guys”, and this is what they are telling the First Nation, “you are one
of the three”. Wow! “You are going to get jobs”, right.
And what
the problem is, Rio will only employ somebody that’s got up to 15 years’
experience in mining. So there is no way that First Nation people are going
to get jobs on that site, no way at all. The jobs are going to people that
Rio deem to have the required amount of experience.
Now what
Rio have already done, they have advertised locally in the Saskatchewan
press, and the business newspapers full of it, that there’s this big uranium
project as big as … it’s quite a big one apparently, as big as anything
Canada’s got, about to start. “Please apply for senior jobs there”, so they
are starting to employ people already – none of them are First Nation
people.
It is very
important that the First Nation people know two things. One, they are not
going to get their people there on jobs, and two, they are not going to get
very much money out of this project. And it’s going to expose, they’re going
to die.
Robles:
Yeah, well that’s a pretty big point there. And how long is the …?
Holland:
… well it is because they have to realize they are going to be breathing
this dust in pretty damn quick.
Robles:
How long is that going to poison the environment?
Holland:
You are talking hundreds of years. Uranium’s half-life is … you’ll be dead
by the time it’s half as strong.
Robles:
Yeah, OK.
Holland:
They really need very, very strong extractors, and they’re not. To do that
you start weakening the profit that you can get and Rio are not going to
weaken that profit, so they will send men and women there that are
adequately protected, and know the protections and precautions to take, but
none of them will be local.
Robles:
I see, I see. Now, one more time, is this going ahead right now or has it
been approved by the government?
Holland:
Yes, yes. Yes, no, no. What’s happening, this Environmental Impact Study,
the EIS, is before the government, prepared by Sharon Singh, for approval,
and there’s an indication that according to the job markets that Rio are
recruiting already. So they are expecting to be able to go ahead, not only
with the drilling program but by ordering the bore mills and the crushers
and the conveyors. Otherwise they wouldn’t be hiring people.
Robles:
Now you are, I think, you are one of the few people in the world, if not the
only person talking about this issue. Are there any other groups fighting
this?
Holland:
I think, if you look at the nation of Mongolia, they are having similar
problems with copper and gold mines, one of the largest in the world called
Oyu Tolgoi, they have already started court action against Rio.
Robles:
Now have you been in touch with the Mongolian government. I believe I heard
something about you were involved in their case.
Holland:
I’ve been asked questions from the Mongolian government, yes, as to what
they are I’d rather keep them confidential at the moment.
There’s an
article on Bougainville, which is another nation, that just came out last
week, on very similar lines that we are talking about now, and also with
Mongolia. And that gives you the entire history of, say, 25 years when that
nation went to war with people that were benefitting, well with Rio, and
just kicked them off the island.
It caused
great concern when you know you are being ripped off. Locals just tend to
get upset.
Robles:
Yes, sure, of course.
Holland:
That’s happening now as we speak in Mongolia, with the Mongolian government
there. And I think these things should be brought to attention of First
Nation leaders, because they can then talk to the leaders of Mongolia, the
Prime Minister of Mongolia, about what Rio have done there. Or the Prime
Minister of Bougainville, what Rio have done there.
It is not
just me saying that Rio are ripping people off. These are Prime Ministers
and governments that are saying “hang on we are being dudded here”
Robles:
Yeah. OK Tony, any big finish?
Holland:
No, no, I am content with what we have said.
Robles:
So, at this stage, I’m trying to understand the exact … how far along this
has gone there in Saskatchewan? Are they actually mining already, or they
are just in the final stages of preparation? Where are they going to start
putting out this dust, if things go as planned, do you know?
Holland:
You are probably talking weeks.
Robles:
Oh, it’s that close?
Holland:
Oh yes, it’s very close. If the Minister knocks it back and insists on
stronger dust, Rio might have to freeze the ground or something like that,
but Rio are preparing for those eventualities. So you can’t not prepare for
something you don’t know, you have to know what you are looking at. Rio has
a fairly good handle on what’s there and how much it’s worth to them to get
it out, and they’ve already started recruiting appropriate people for those
technologies that they will have to bring to bear there.
But none
of the technologies they’ve got is controlling dust, and you can’t control
dust, can you, really.
Robles:
But I don’t know, you could have maybe big filters or vacuum cleaners or
something around, or nothing?
Holland:
Well let’s assume you use a vacuum cleaner or a dust extractor like that.
What happens to the dust you collect? You have really got to be very careful
and pedantic about that dust because trust me John, it will kill you.
Robles:
Sure, sure. Are you aware of the volume of this mine? What is it worth
financially?
Holland:
In the Environmental Impact Statement you’ve got all those numbers there,
and it’s very big, very big. It would warrant the same type of spiel as it’s
getting, i.e. of the 10,000 exploration programs we look at, only three make
it this far.
Robles:
The lucky victim, yeah?
Holland:
Yeah, and that’s how it’s presented. You know, you are the lucky group, and
you’re going to get lots of money from this, right. And, as I say, Rio’s
already recruiting, now they are not recruiting locally, and they wouldn’t
recruit unless they were … they were ready to go. So they are thinking that
they’ve got it in the bag.
Robles:
Ok, if our listeners want to know more on this, where can they go, do you
have a website address for us or something?
Holland:
If you want to know more about it, I would recommend you have a look at
Mongolia. Oyu Tolgoi and just put in Bougainville, Rio Tinto, and you will
find out virtually what I am saying, I am replicating what’s going on there.
Robles:
Ok, Bougainville, Rio Tinto, Mongolia.
Holland:
Oyu Tolgoi … and I think one of the concepts you need to understand is that
Rio, when they are sending in the bill for their 60%, as it were, it’s never
a bill for what an actual item would cost, it’s a bill for that item plus an
amount of money that Rio considers a decent profit. So if something has cost
them a $million, Rio’s decent profit might be: we will build that at a
million and a half. So, and the trick is we will send in our expenses labor
in order to get this project going, so a fly out - fly in guy, he might be
getting $200,000, which is decent average money, but Rio charge him out at
half a million.
Robles:
I see, I see.
Holland:
So they pocket 300,000, right. And it is those of issues that are now
contentious with the Mongolian government.
Robles:
Well of
course.
Holland:
They are saying “hang on, we are being ripped off by this technique”. And
they have just served Rio with a tax bill in order to stop the project dead.
And you are talking of $6 billion or nearly $10 billion in total there.
Robles:
Wow!
Holland:
So we are talking big money here.
Robles:
I see, I
see. And you are talking about nations and countries and being robbed here.
This is not just some minor scam here.
Holland:
Yes, it’s not a little one, and you need a very professional veneer, like,
if you meet people that get first class honors degrees, they are very good
with words John.
Robles:
I see, I
see. And you are talking about nations and countries and being robbed here.
This is not just some minor scam here.
Holland:
Yes, it’s these people don’t know that Sharon Singh has a criminal record,
been arrested for theft or left Australia under a cloud for instance. All
they know is somebody presents with a nice smile and she looks Indian and
she’s nice type of thing. But boom, you start telling Sharon about the
things that are of concern to you and different words appear to soothe it
over.
Robles:
OK, thanks Tony, I really appreciate it.
Holland:
Good luck.
Robles:
OK, thanks a lot, and I’ll do my best to get this out there. So you’re
saying is in the final week stage before it goes like full steam ahead,
right?
Holland:
Ah …
Robles:
Several weeks?
Holland:
You check with the Minister how close it is, and it could even be sooner
than that.
Robles:
Oh God.
Holland:
But it needs to looked at carefully about that dust, because if he doesn’t
really put very, very … I don’t know if he can control it, I don’t know any
technique that can, then those people are in for a shock, and it’s
guaranteed that somebody is going to get leukaemia sooner rather than later,
and/or some other form of cancer.
Robles:
Now this dust, it can fly for thousands of miles can it?
Holland:
Well, I wouldn’t say thousands of miles, but certainly it will cover a big
area of Saskatchewan, a big area.
Robles:
And how far is the largest populated city to this mine, do you know?
Holland:
I think its Saskatoon, I think its Saskatoon.
Robles:
I see, I see.
Holland:
But you can get the details from the EIS exactly where it is, or with the
Ministry there. But I think the people will that that I’ve written to will
probably respond to you as well.
Robles:
I see, I see.
Holland:
But John, bye, bye.
Robles:
Thanks for the heads up. OK, bye.
Holland:
Bye, bye.
You were listening to an interview with Tony Holland, a security specialist and a geopolitical analyst. Thank you very much for listening.
I can be reached at jar2@jar2.com
