Mining Monitor June 2015
We are excited about this Mining Monitor. (Online version here) Not only are we remembering the struggle at Ranger but we also publishing our first Tok Pisin article. Lauren Mellor from the Environment Centre NT reflects on ERA’s recent announcement on the Ranger 3 deeps expansion, corporate liabilities and...
RIO Tinto, the war on Bougainville and resistance to mining
State Crime – on the Margins of Empire, RIO Tinto, the War on Bougainville and Resistance to mining Author: Kristian Lasslett, Pub: Pluto Press, paperback, 2014, 256 p. Book Review: Charles Roche, Mineral Policy Institute Dr Lasslett, a criminology academic from the University of Ulster, has provided a new...
Bougainville Mining Bill 2014 in ABG Parliament
The Autonomous Bougainville Government is debating the new Bougainville Mining (Transitional Arrangements) Bill 2014 this week with a vote expected on Friday 8th August. Until the bill was made available this morning via the PNG Mine watch website, most people had yet to see the bill, indeed most Bouganvillians...
A people impoverished and humiliated by Rio Tinto
Bougainville’s Sir Paul Lapun speaks out On the 14th of April 1988, Sir Paul Lapun – the legendary MP for Bougainville (1964-77) who passed away in 2003 – sat down with Rio Tinto’s historian to talk about the great fraud forced upon his people, and the long struggle they...