Media Advisory - Premier Horgan and Rio Tinto Celebrate First Full Year of Production at BC Works

KITIMAT, BC, Oct. 20, 2017 /CNW Telbec/ - Please be advised that Rio Tinto will be hosting a celebration at its BC Works aluminium smelter site in Kitimat to commemorate the first year of full production at the modernised smelter.  

Date	Saturday, 21 October 2017
Time	1:30pm
Location	Main Administration Building (#272)
	Rio Tinto Kitimat smelter site
	1 Smeltersite Road
	Kitimat, BC
	Parking is available adjacent to the building. Please note it is back-in parking only.

Alf Barrios, chief executive, Aluminium, Rio Tinto, and Gareth Manderson, general manager, BC Works, Rio Tinto, will have the pleasure of hosting the Honourable John Horgan, Premier of British Columbia, the Honourable Michelle Mungall, BC Minister of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, and Haisla Hereditary Chief Sammy Robinson and distinguished performers, the Spirit of the Kitlope. They will be joined by Rio Tinto employees and community representatives. Members of the press are cordially invited to attend.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Note that there will not be an opportunity for a Q&A session following the event. However, a press package will be issued electronically after the festivities that includes a media statement and images.

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For further information: Claudine Gagnon, Director, Media Relations & Communications, Rio Tinto Canada, [phone], [e-mail]; Katherine Voigt, Senior Advisor, Communications & Communities, BC Works, Rio Tinto, [phone], [e-mail]

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