Mining mega-giant Rio Tinto has run up against a wee problem in its plans to "develop" a huge mine in Western Australia. Scientists have discovered a number of previously unknown species of troglobite, a blind spider-like critter only seven millimetres long, on the site and local environmental authorities have rejected the plans for the iron mine fearing that the species would not survive. Rio Tinto will appeal with a spokesman saying
:"It's a significant project, so we will be appealing...It's just part of being in the mining business. We support the EPA process in general."
This leaves unsaid the obvious fact that if God had wanted this animals to survive She wouldn't have hid them so close to iron ore.
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