Debate continues raging over the role played by Rio Tinto’s subsidiary Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL) in the decade-long war waged by Papua New Guinea “security” forces on the people of Bougainville from 1988 onwards.
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Bougainville Copper Limited, or BCL, is a subsidiary of Rio Tinto.
Last month the President of the European Shareholders of Bougainville Copper (ESBC) Axel Sturm publicly raised concerns over the volatility of BCL’s share prices. …
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LANDOWNERS of the Bougainville Copper Mine have called on the government for the Bougainville Copper Agreement (BCA) Act 1969 to be repealed. Panguna Landowners Association (PLA) stated that if Panguna Mine is to be re-opened, …
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The Bougainville Mining Lease cannot be reviewed, despite its recent expiration, because of an automatic 21-year extension clause under the Bougainville Agreement.
Such is the case facing the once prolific world copper producer but the …
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A U.S. federal appeals court has revived a lawsuit accusing mining giant Rio Tinto of committing genocide and war crimes in Papua New Guinea, where it once ran one of the world’s largest copper and …
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MINING should not be the first thing on every Bougainvilleans mind, Me’ekamui spokesman Philip Takaung said.
Speaking at the ground breaking ceremony of the Paruparu Jaba road the Me’ekamui vice president said the environment should …
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A decade ago, landowners profoundly impacted by Rio Tinto’s Panguna copper-gold mine in Bougainville tried to bring the company to court in the USA, using the Alien Tort Act.
They wanted Rio Tinto to account …
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The leader of the Original Me’ekamui rebel group on Bougainville, Chris Uma says he wants to talk with the Australian government and with mining giant Rio Tinto, about the reopening Panguna copper mine.
See http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201108/s3290464.htm…
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London Calling asks: did Rio Tinto fund war on Bougainville?
Whatever Michael Somare might have done in office (or out of it) over the past 22 years, as the first prime minister of Papua New …
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Me’ekamui Tribal Government has insisted it will not allow anyone to reopen the Panguna mine until all outstanding issues are resolved. President Philip Miriori said today that as opposed to reports by Australian newspaper on …
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John Momis, President of Bougainville, is an intelligent man. He has lengthly experience of Papua New Guinea politics; at one point in his distinguished career backing secession of his province from the central government. He …
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