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Emmy Hafild co-founded Indonesia’s most prominent environmental NGO in the 1990s. Today she’s an adviser to a private company building a hydropower dam along the Batang Toru river ecosystem on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, which relies on coal to produce most of its electricity.
Ms. Hafild accepts that there is a trade-off between producing hydropower and the disruption of the surrounding ecosystem, but argues that this project is necessary to help Indonesia hit its target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. “Climate change is real,” she says. “At this time, we cannot . [see things in] black and white.”
Published on: Wednesday, May 12, 2021
By: AFP
Rescuers retrieving bodies after a landslide at a gold mine in south Solok, West Sumatra.
JAKARTA: At least seven people were killed and one reported missing after a landslide at an Indonesian gold mine, authorities said Tuesday.
Torrential rains triggered a landslide on Monday, inundating the mine with mud mixed with stones and debris in South Solok regency, West Sumatra, said the local emergency department head Fikri, who like many Indonesians goes by one name.
In a statement, the department said “at least seven killed and one is missing”.
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Rescuers managed to save nine survivors from the mud and were combing the area to find the missing miner, Fikri said.