London-listed mining giants keen on new prospects
Two controversial Anglo-Australian mining giants who abandoned operations at Bougainville copper mine and the Ok Tedi mine in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea due to the Bougainville crisis and environmental damages are still keen on mineral exploration and mining operations in the country. BHP Billiton (Australia) and Rio Tinto (Australia) have purchased geochemistry [...]
Civil war in PNG’s Bougainville changed attitudes to land, says nun
A nun running a rehabilitation centre in the Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville says the civil war changed attitudes to land and these now need to to be addressed. The war was fought because of the damge being done by the Panguna mine, run by a subsidiary of Rio Tinto. Sister Garasu says during [...]
Papua New Guinea removes land owner rights
Lawyers for a landowner group won an injunction against a mine’s submarine tailings disposal on the basis of a lack of a free and independent environmental plan, as is a prerequisite to their licensing by the Department of Environment and Conservation. The Government has now responded to this by creating a law which will block [...]
Indigenous Leaders from Papua New Guinea Accuse Barrick Gold of Abuses
Four members of the Ipili tribe of Porgera in Papua New Guinea (PNG) travelled to Canada to demand that Barrick Gold address serious human rights abuses and environmental destruction related to Barrick’s Porgera Joint Venture gold mine. Two of the Ipili are landowners and also part-owners of the Porgera Joint Venture mine. See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=10128. Barrick [...]
Report on the London AGM of Rio Tinto, 15 April 2010
Introduction This was Jan du Plessis’ first AGM as Chairman, and he gave plenty of time for questions on the annual report. There were numerous questions on the convictions of Rio Tinto officials in China for bribery (see Rio accused of abandoning Stern Hu, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/04/16/2874320.htm), on the clash of timing of the Rio Tinto AGM [...]
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