Entire villages would be wiped out if natural disaster hit dam on PNG mine, critics say
Entire villages would be wiped out if natural disaster hit dam on PNG mine, critics say Lyanne Togiba in Port Moresby and Ben Doherty Pacific Editor © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Renato Granieri/Alamy A proposed dam to hold billions of tonnes of mine waste near the head of Papua New Guinea’s longest river is a potential environmental disaster that could wipe out entire villages if there was a natural disaster, government officials, environmental advocacy groups and villagers living along the river say. © Photograph: Renato Granieri/Alamy A man paddles a canoe ...