By Kurtis Doering
Shareholders at Tuesday’s PotashCorp annual general meeting in Saskatoon defeated a motion to conduct an independant human rights investigation of mining operations in Western Sahara.
The Saskatchewan-based mining giant, billed as the world’s largest fertilizer company, buys phosphate rock from mines in the region. The mines are operated by OCP, which is owned by the kingdom of Moracco.
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