Polluted water, website, and worker deaths
…swirls around whether to reopen mining operations at Panguna in Bougainville, years after pollution from the mine sparked a war of independence from Papua New Guinea; and Freeport, operator of…
Coal, climate change, and corruption
…pretty sight. Mining legacies Three articles deal with mining legacy issues: Rio Tinto’s Panguna mine in Bougainville and the Ranger mine in Australia and the difficulty of carrying out mine…
Breaking free from BHP
…the people of Bougainville and asks the question of ‘to mine or not to mine’? The Panguna mine is no longer owned by Rio Tinto but the company was involved…
When an April shower turns into a perfect storm
…his government is saying no to mining at Panguna for the foreseeable future. 3) Colombian campaigners in UK to talk about successful resistance to mining, and viable economic alternatives Resistance…