BHM

{Author's note: BHM is to BHP Billiton what Endron is to certain IRL oil companies and meant to cover the "what-if" of the cWoD.}
==BHM Incorporated==
Wentworth Road 
PO Box 5001 
Broken Hill, New South Wales 
Australia 2880 Tel: +61 (8) 8088 8582 
Fax: +61 (8) 8088 8762 
Time: UTC + 9.30h Sydney 
General Manager: Todd Barrows
==History==
The Broken Hill Mining Company Limited, BHM Co. Ltd., BHM was incorporated in 1885 and operated the first silver and lead mine at Broken Hill. It had remained one of the region's largest employeers and heavily influenced its entire political and economic landscape. Its now a multinational conglomerate and in some ways, a competitor of Pentex. In 1915, the company ventured into steel manufacturing, with its operations based primarily in Newcastle, New South Wales. The company began petroleum exploration in the 1960s with discoveries in Bass Strait, an activity which became an increasing focus and it invested heavily in off-shore platforms, some of them in the Great Barrier Reef region.
In the 1970s, BHM began to diversify offshore in a variety of projects including was a copper mine in Papua New Guinea, where the company was successfully attacked by "indigenous inhabitants" because of the environmental degradation caused by the mine operations. They have also battled indigenous and enivoromental groups over a giant copper mine in Chile and the Diamond Mine in northern Canada but Broken Hill was the birthplace of the multi-billion dollar company- and the war against its exploitive practices.
The Garou believe that most of BHM's Syndicate of Seven- the name given to the original members- remain very much in existence as powerful vampires who used the current Board of Directors as proxies. They have successfully killed other vampires who were major stockholders in the company and think its possible that the Fera/Alcheringa or other factions eliminated at least three of the original Syndicate.
==BHM-STF==
BHM's Security Task Force is the best combined paramilitary and IT security that money can buy and well-equipped to deal with both mundane and supernatural attacks on BHM personnel or property. The Garou are aware that they employ many psychics and sorcerers, some of whom are able to use spirit allies of their own or manipulate reality in ways that make them formidable and hard to take by surprise. BHM is aware of the Shifter's weakness to gold and silver and will employ special ammo and tailored chemical weapons that can take down even the mightiest Ahroun who's caught off-guard.
This does not keep the Garou and others from making campaigns against BHP interests, but the Sept of Luna's Tears and have learned to pick their battles carefully.
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