Tag: Rio Tinto
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...
Thousands of Bougainville residents support lawsuit against mining giant
RNZ Pacific
About 4500 Bougainvillean residents now back a lawsuit against mining giant Rio Tinto.
This is an additional 1500 people from the autonomous Papua New...
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...
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 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...
Rio Tinto, clean up your own toxic smelter mess (and go...
OPINION: By Murray Horton in Christchurch
For as long as the Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa (Cafca) has existed – more than 45 years...
O’Neill government suffers first election court rebuff in Bougainville
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk
Bougainville Affairs Minister Fr Simon Dumarinu has been ousted by four votes as the first casualty of the Peter O'Neill government...
PM O’Neill denies ‘shady deal’ accusation over Bougainville mine
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has denied making a deal with Rio Tinto to take up the Bougainville Copper Limited shares offloaded...
The presidential leak, PNG’s bid for Bougainville Copper and the policy...
Report from the Pacific Media Centre
With the window for Bougainville's independence referendum now open, time is of the essence if the ABG is to...
PNG bid to buy Rio Tinto’s shares in mine company ‘unacceptable’...
Report by Liam Cochrane in Port Moresby
The Papua New Guinea government wants to buy Rio Tinto's shares in the Australian company Bougainville Copper Limited...
