The World-Wide Web Virtual Library - Papua New Guinea
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Mining and petroleum matters ...
Signing the settlement accord in Kiunga
(link to Stuart Kirsch article in Cultural Survival)
Australian Conservation Foundation
Papua New Guinea (PNG) is blessed to be endowed with great wealth in natural resources and a diversity of cultures ... However, this ‘last frontier’ Pacific Island nation is increasingly under pressure to subject its wealth of natural resources to commercial exploitation, which will undoubtedly result in serious ecological problems.
[Last checked: 04 March 03 10:53:11 PM]
Mineral Policy Institute
Lihir mine and the London (Anti-Dumping) Convention etc ...
[Last checked: 04 March 03 10:56:30 PM]
Papua New Guinea Blues -- Multinational Monitor
AUSTRALIA'S LARGEST COMPANY, BHP, has long conducted environmentally destructive mining operations near the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers in the remote Western Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) with little public scrutiny. That suddenly changed in 1995, when the "Big Australian," as the company calls itself, helped draft a bill that eliminates the rights of PNG citizens adversely affected by the mine to seek compensation in court.
[Last checked: 04 March 03 10:56:48 PM]
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