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PUSAKA in the Land of Papua

... owned by the Medco Group. They had never had information about the benefits and impacts of the project, about what would happen to their rights or their livelihoods which were highly ...

Story - carolyn - 12/20/2011 - 15:48 - 0 attachments

DTE questions at BHP Billiton AGM

... during the coming year... ...Andrew Hickman asked about BHP Billiton’s activities in Indonesia, and particularly IndoMet in Kalimantan. He said that there was nothing about the project in the Customer Group section of the annual report. Jac ...

Story - carolyn - 10/26/2012 - 20:24 - 0 attachments

LMN report on BHP Billiton AGM, London

... communities in the area. CEO Andrew Mackenzie had talked about gains to local communities, but these communities had said that they do ... this is a different company [brushing aside the concern about the cumulative impacts of opencast mining in the area]. BHP Billiton is ...

Story - carolyn - 05/22/2014 - 11:33 - 0 attachments

A crucial year for climate justice

... This is a key year for decision-making about climate change as governments work towards a global agreement in ... June 2009 This is a key year for decision-making about climate change as governments work towards a global agreement in ...

Story - carolyn - 12/05/2010 - 19:21 - 0 attachments

Palm oil is not green

... on the estates. Sawit Watch estimates that there are about 4 million smallholders and their families on these estates in Indonesia. ... in the European Union. The group is particularly concerned about the potential of the biofuel market to drive the destruction of ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:12 - 0 attachments

Taking the message to the top

... was led by women delegates of North Sumatra protesting about the notorious Indorayon pulp plant in their homeland. The whole ... followed by a long address from each official in turn about current developments and future plans. The first two speakers vied with ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:22 - 0 attachments

In brief... DTE 72 - March 2007

... by over 30 percent by early 2006. Poor families spend about a quarter of their income on rice, so poverty rose. Meanwhile, a ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 attachments

Freeport: still getting away with it

... from Sonny Keraf and from NGOs who expressed doubts about the validity of the audit and criticised Freeport for publishing only the ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:20 - 0 attachments

Indigenous miners evicted

... Mining was pressing the authorities to do something about the environmentally damaging mining polluting the River Tayan. A written ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:20 - 0 attachments

Messages to mark our 50th edition

... Ginting, WALHI (Translation: "An interesting thing about the DTE newsletter is its ability to be up to date and its choice of issues...It is not only a broad reference for information about the problems of environmental justice in Indonesia, but also an ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:18 - 0 attachments