Tag: Panguna mine
Rio Tinto class action begins over ‘toxic’ Bougainville mine disaster
By Harry Pearl of BenarNews
An initial hearing of a class action against mining giant Rio Tinto over the toxic legacy of the Panguna copper...
Lawsuit promises justice for Rio Tinto’s mining disaster in Bougainville –...
INVESTIGATIVE REPORT: By Aubrey Belford of the OCCRP
High in the forested mountains of Papua New Guinea's Bougainville Island lies an abandoned, kilometer-wide crater cut...
Bougainville minister angry over change in vote on independence
RNZ Pacific
A cabinet minister in Bougainville is furious that the Papua New Guinea government has decided to make a vote on independence an absolute...
Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities
RNZ Pacific
Community leaders around Panguna mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville want mining giant Rio Tinto to help out following...
Bougainville president slams ‘mocking’ by drunken MP over independence
Asia Pacific Report
Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama today condemned a visiting Papua New Guinean member of Parliament for "mocking" the autonomous region's independence aspirations during...
Bougainville’s Toroama visits Ona’s rebel village 25 years after civil war
The National
Bougainville President Ishmael Toroama has visited Guava village in the heartland of the Panguna mine in Central Bougainville to pay his respects to...
PNG faces dilemma over ‘momentous’ decision to reopen Bougainville’s Panguna mine
Last week the Bougainville Autonomous Government announced an agreement had been reach with Panguna landowners to reopen the island's controversial gold and copper mine.
Once...
Panguna share value doubles overnight after landowners opt to reopen mine
By Gorethy Kenneth in Port Moresby
The dormant Bougainville Copper Limited share value has more than doubled overnight on the Australian Stock Exchange following a...
Panguna campaigner Theonila Matbob wins award over Rio Tinto challenge
By Evan Schuurman
Bougainville community leader and MP Theonila Roka Matbob has received the Gwynne Skinner Human Rights Award in recognition of her outstanding work...
‘Please explain’ call by hardliners over Australian police at Bougainville mine
By Chris Baria at PNG Mine Watch
The chairman of Bougainville Hardliners Group and former combatant-turned-businessman, James Onartoo, has called on the Autonomous Bougainville Government...
Bougainville landowners call on Momis for protection from ‘offensive’ draft law
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Landowners throughout Bougainville were today calling on President John Momis for protection from a “callous opportunist.”
The landowners said that the customary...
Miriori fires broadside at ‘rogue’ Bougainville mining rights bid
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
A highly controversial proposal by an unknown and newly registered company, Caballus Mining, is attempting to grab a monopoly over all...
Future of Panguna mine at stake in PNG, Melbourne court...
By Kevin McQuillan of Business Advantage PNG
Two court hearings next week - one in Port Moresby and the other in Melbourne - will help...
Momis announces moratorium on Panguna mining and exploration
By Aloysius Laukai in Buka
The President of the Autonomous Bougainville Government, Chief Dr John Momis, has announced an indefinite moratorium on exploration and mining...
Phillip Miriori: Why Bougainvilleans are having their say – ‘No to...
OPINION: By Phillip Miriori
As many would be aware, we Bougainvilleans have been through a tough history with the disasters that came from the past...
16 years on: Looking back on Bougainville’s Peace Agreement
Flashback: An EMTV News video report on the Bougainville peace.
By Fabian Hakalits in Arawa
It has been 16 years this week since the signing of...
‘We’ll have final say on any mining,’ warn Panguna landowners
A video report by Fabian Hakalits. Source: EMTV News
By Fabian Hakalits in Buka
Panguna landowners will determine any reopening of the controversial mine on Bougainville,...
Images: ‘No BCL, no mining,’ say protesting Panguna women
Landowner women and mothers have protested over plans to reopen the Panguna mine on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea.
They demonstrated in Arawa in central...