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Eco-Terrorism : Freeport Mining



Eco-Terrorism : Freeport Mining
WEST PAPUA: The Truth about "Reclamation" in The Freeport Wasteland

Free West Papua Campaign (UK) comment: Freeport/Rio Tinto recently funded a Jakarta Post journalist to report on the vast area of tailings from the Grasberg mine ("The Freeport Wastelend"). Compare his report, "Butterflies breathe new life into Fre
Free West Papua Campaign (UK) comment: Freeport/Rio Tinto recently funded a Jakarta Post journalist to report on the vast area of tailings from the Grasberg mine ("The Freeport Wastelend"). Compare his report, "Butterflies breathe new life into Freeport's wasteland," copied below, with evidence provided by a member of the West Papua Action Network team who also recently visited the area.eport's wasteland," copied below, with evidence provided by a member of the West Papua Action Network team who also recently visited the area.

Aug 5, 2008, 19:01

Eco-Terrorism : Freeport Mining
Photo News WEST PAPUA: Benny Wenda's Question to Rio Tinto AGM, London, 17 April 2008
Benny Wenda’s Question to Rio Tinto AGM, London, 17 April 2008

Free West Papua (UK) NOTE: British/Australian mining giant Rio Tinto plc is part owner of the Grasberg copper & gold mine, operated by Freeport McMoRan, in West Papua.

Apr 21, 2008, 12:36

Eco-Terrorism : Freeport Mining
WEST PAPUA: Investors in Rio Tinto and BP face protests (The Guardian, UK, 17.4.08)
"Rio Tinto promised they would bring wealth, health and education for my people, but they are paying the Indonesian military that kills my people. They have filled our rivers with pollution and they have destroyed our sacred mountain: their promises are worth nothing to West Papuans." BENNY WENDA

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Apr 21, 2008, 12:33

Eco-Terrorism : Freeport Mining
Rio Tinto’s tainted track record
The multinational giant's controversial record should serve as a warning to the people of Sarawak that the aluminium smelter might not be the ticket to the good life that they have been led to believe, writes Josef Roy Benedict.
Feb 21, 2008, 22:15

Eco-Terrorism : Freeport Mining
Freeport pays Indonesia 1.8 billion dlrs in 2007
JAKARTA, Feb 4 (AFP) -- The local Indonesian unit of US mining
giant Freeport said Monday that it paid the government here 1.8
billion dollars in 2007 amid soaring commodity prices and solid
production.

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