Anglo chairman to visit Alaska

Posted by Elizabeth Bluemink

Posted: March 23, 2009 - 2:31 pm

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The London mining giant providing most of the financial backing for the Pebble copper and gold prospect is bringing one of its most powerful people to Alaska this weekend.

Mark Moody-Stuart, the chairman of Anglo American's board, plans to travel to Southwest Alaska and Anchorage on Saturday and Sunday, according to the Pebble Partnership.

Moody-Stuart, a geologist, spent much of his career at Royal Dutch Shell, rising up to chairman. (He retired from Shell in 2005, around the time the oil company began expressing serious interest in oil leases in Bristol Bay and the Beaufort Sea.)

The partnership said Moody-Stuart will visit Iliamna, Newhalen, Dillingham, Naknek and Anchorage to meet with Bristol Bay stakeholders and community leaders. (I haven't seen a full schedule but I'm told folks are receiving invitations to a 30-minute meeting with Moody-Stuart in Dillingham at 5 p.m. Saturday at the University of Alaska's Bristol Bay campus.)

Pebble Partnership spokesman Mike Heatwole said Moody-Stuart is coming to Alaska "because one of his personal objectives since taking over as Anglo’s Chairman (in 2002) has been to visit all of the company’s operations and projects."

Here's some random facts about Moody-Stuart. He was knighted by the Queen of England in 2000. He's been heavily involved in the United Nation's Global Compact, which focuses on corporate social responsibility. He has the most famous bushy eyebrows in the British business world, according to The Guardian.

Here's some recent articles either written about Moody-Stuart or extensively quoting him:

* On banning gas guzzlers

* On Africa's mining industry and poverty

* On human rights

* A 2003 Guardian profile

* Coal controversy in Colombia

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