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Show 216 Daybreak's hybridity of nature and culture is important because it puts Rio Tinto in harmony, rather than competition, with the environment. Because Rio Tinto has proven that it can clean up after itself and use post-mining land for the good of the community, it has built a level of trust and goodwill with its neighbors at Daybreak and within the greater Salt Lake community. Although the Bingham Canyon Mine may have once been a place of environmental disaster, it is now an object of environmental sustainability. During an interview, Rio Tinto's communication team commented on the ways Daybreak affected its relationship with the community: …I can say that Daybreak really is that living example of what a post-mining land use can be. And it's not severing our ties with the community; it's a continuation of a strong…relationship that we built over time where again we've looked at what are our business needs and what are the community needs and how do those two things… come together? …Daybreak is kind of that perfect nexus, great example…it's very easy for people to judge mining and its…impact, especially if you don't necessarily know a whole lot about mining and you don't necessarily appreciate all of the things that come from mining [points to cartographer's phone recording the conversation]. Daybreak was readily an opportunity to maybe get some people who may not necessarily have…really thought about us, an opportunity for us to demonstrate the type of organization that we are and share what our long-term vision could be and really sort of be the catalyst for this regional transformation around…long-term sustainable planning really. So I think it's really given us the opportunity to build some pretty strong relationships with some people who may not necessarily have been interested in building a relationship with us…Kennecott and Daybreak are really one and the same. So Daybreak has been an opportunity for Rio Tinto to build a close relationship with the community. Rio Tinto and the Bingham Canyon Mine are allies with Daybreak. Since "Kennecott and Daybreak are really one and the same," residents who enjoy their house, their neighborhood, and their front porch, appreciate Kennecott, and by extension, Rio Tinto. Rio Tinto has a mundane presence at Daybreak. It is both present and absent. Rio is on company trucks that drive through the area on their way to the mine. It is on the |
