When BHP Billiton pulled out of the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea, it was because it recognised that the mine should never have been constructed in the way it was – with riverine …
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BHP’s toxic legacy continues at Ok Tedi
Rio Tinto subsidiary’s Bougainville Mining Lease expires
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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Lawsuit Revived Against Mining Giant Rio Tinto for War Crimes in Bougainville
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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Deep sea mining to begin in Papua New Guinea next year
A lawyer with a division of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community says deep-sea mineral exploration and mining will be hugely beneficial to the Pacific Islands.
Hannah Lily, who’s with the Secretariat of the Pacific …
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‘Bougainvilleans should not rush into mining’
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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Wikileaks expose US & PNG position on Bougainville case against Rio Tinto
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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Rebel leader wants to talk about reopening Bougainville copper mine
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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Did Rio Tinto start a war in Bougainville?
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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Papua New Guinea politicians demand Ok Tedi mine close in 2013
“BHP and government have made it a rubbish dump”
As the government of Bougainville and Rio Tinto call for a possible re-opening of the Panguna mine, political leaders in Papua New Guinea are, in stark …
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Rio Tinto: the elephant in Bougainville’s room
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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