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Tiwai Point aluminium smelter. Photo: RNZ / Nate McKinnon The government made a multimillion-dollar offer to the multinational last December to advance the clean-up, but in March pulled the plug on negotiations. In relation to the proposed Crown payment, Rio Tinto indicated that the . payment was too low in quantum, a Treasury email in January this year says. At the same time, it said the company had rejected a request to provide a financial guarantee over the clean-up. Earlier, last October, Treasury told Robertson Rio Tinto appeared to be seeking multiple meetings with him and others to circumvent the Treasury-led negotiating team and strategy. ....
But hundreds of other jobs - contractors and local businesses - would also likely be lost. Today workers gathered for a union meeting to discuss their future and many described their disappointment and frustration at the way the potential shutdown had been handled by Refining NZ - and the government. Shane Hool has worked at the refinery for 32 years but said the coming months may be his last if the close down, proposed for the second quarter of next year, goes ahead. But he said there were concerns the refinery might not even make it that far, with staff leaving in droves. ....