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…
…the world’s largest copper and gold mines. In their lawsuit, current and former residents of the island of Bougainville claimed that Rio Tinto decimated the island and forced native workers…
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…
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…
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…
