The increasingly frustrated Indonesian Ministry of Forestry has issued a second warning to mining giant PT Freeport Indonesia for not obtaining a permit to mine in protected forest areas. London-listed Rio Tinto helped to finance …
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Ministry Blasts ‘Illegal’ Freeport Mining
Conflicts over mining: the illusory boundary between “legal” and “illegal”
It’s widely believed that “illegal” mining is only undertaken by small groups of entrepreneurs or artisanal operators. If, and when, the state cracks down on their operations, the culprits are removed (sometimes with considerable violence, …
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Six wounded in ambush near Freeport-Rio Tinto mine in West Papua
Six people were wounded Sunday in a shooting ambush near US company Freeport McMoRan’s massive gold and copper mine in Indonesia’s eastern Papua region, police said. Three policemen and three mine workers were hurt in …
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BHP Billiton isn’t putting another nickel in
Recently there’s been some speculation that BHP Billiton – the world’s biggest mining company – may be about to exit from nickel production.
In 2008, it pulled out of the Gag Island project in West …
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West Papua: Police slay Tribal Activist at world’s biggest copper-gold minesite
Last month, a legendary leader of the West Papua self-determination movement, OPM, was ambushed and shot dead by Indonesian police. Kelly Kwalik was accused of having “master-minded” recent fatal attacks on workers within the huge …
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LMN Response to BHP Billiton over the alternative report, October 2009
BHP Billiton’s response to the ‘BHP Billiton: Undermining the Future – Alternative Annual Report 2009′ is wholly inadequate. BHP Billiton has a record of failing to respond to detailed criticisms of its operations. It simply …
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Protesters pounce on mining giant’s AGM
BHP Billiton had its Australian AGM picketed by protesters. But inside the meeting the chairman of BHP Billiton, Don Argus, did not seem interested in the environmental issues. He was saying that governments have to …
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Indonesia: NGO denounces government’s “green rating” of mines
Indonesia’s leading mining advocacy organisation, JATAM, has deplored police violence used on protestors who demonstrated against an Australian iron ore project last month.
Claiming this to be just one example of the government “putting foreign …
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BHP Billiton challenged at AGM
Another year – and another BHP Billiton AGM, held in London on October 29 2009. This year the company more than ever boasted of its continual march to world domination (or at least, domination of …
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BHP Billiton: undermining the future
Alternative Report on world’s biggest mining company
BHP Billiton, the world’s largest diversified resources company – producing oil as well as coal, copper, diamonds, iron ore, manganese, nickel, uranium and a number of other minerals …
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More shootings at Freeport Rio Tinto’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia
A weekend attack left two security guards injured but has not affected production, the company said.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page34?oid=89128&sn=Detail.…
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