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Rio Tinto reaches agreement to assess Bougainville copper mine impact

Reuters
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The Panguna mine is seen in Bougainville, Paua New Guinea, in this Planet Labs satellite photo received by Reuters September 26, 2017. Trevor Hammond/Planet Labs/Handout via REUTERS/File photo
MELBOURNE, July 21 (Reuters) - Rio Tinto Ltd (RIO.AX) said on Wednesday it has reached an agreement with stakeholders of the Bougainville community to look into potential environmental damage and human rights breaches at a copper mine it ran decades ago.
Community and human rights groups have been pushing the miner to review issues around water, land and health arising from the Panguna copper mine that Rio ran for nearly 20 years until 1989. ....

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Rio Tinto to pay for Panguna impact assessment

Bougainville communities secure commitment from Rio Tinto to assess environmental and human rights impacts of former mine
Rio Tinto has publicly committed to fund an independent environmental and human rights impact assessment of its former Panguna mine.
This follows a human rights complaint filed last September by 156 Bougainville residents from communities downstream of the mine.
They allege the massive volume of waste pollution left by the mine is having severe environmental and human rights impacts and putting the lives and livelihoods of their communities at risk.
Panguna tailings wasteland
Photo: supplied HRLC
The complaint sought commitments from Rio Tinto to fund an independent impact assessment of the site and contribute to a substantial fund to address risks to health and safety, assist with long-term clean-up and rehabilitation. ....

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Rio Tinto, Bougainville community reach agreement to assess Panguna legacy impacts

Rio Tinto, Bougainville community reach agreement to assess Panguna legacy impacts
Theonila Roka Matbob stands in front of the Panguna mine pit in Bougainville.
(Image courtesy of the Human Rights Law Centre).
The world’s second-largest miner, Rio Tinto, and Bougainville community members, represented by the Human Rights Law Centre, have reached an agreement to identify and assess legacy impacts of the former Panguna copper mine in Bougainville.
The Panguna mine was operated by BCL, majority-owned by Rio Tinto, for 17 years from 1972 until 1989, when operations were suspended due to an uprising against the mine and subsequent civil war. A peace agreement was signed in 2001. ....

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Rio Tinto reaches deal to review Bougainville copper mine impact

Rio Tinto reaches deal to review Bougainville copper mine impact
Reuters
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The Panguna mine is seen in Bougainville
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Rio Tinto Ltd said on Wednesday it has reached an agreement with stakeholders of the Bougainville community to look into potential environmental damage and human rights breaches at a copper mine it ran decades ago.
Community and human rights groups have been pushing the miner to review issues https://www.reuters.com/article/us-mining-rio-tinto-bougainville-idUKKBN26J218 around water, land and health arising from the Panguna copper mine that Rio ran for nearly 20 years until 1989.
Rio was responding to a human rights complaint filed by a group of Bougainville residents last year who said that the massive volume of waste pollution left by the mine was having severe environmental and human rights impacts and putting the lives and livelihoods of communities at risk. ....

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- Mining giant Rio Tinto Face Environmental, Human Rights Complaint in Papua New Guinea -

On the occasion of World Environment Day, 5 June 2021, drawing from IPS’s bank of features and opinion editorials published this year, we are re-publishing one article a day, for the next two weeks.
The original article was published on January 4 2021
Contamination of rivers and streams by mine waste in the vicinity of the Panguna copper mine in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea. Credit: Catherine Wilson
CANBERRA, Australia, Jan 4 2021 (IPS) – Local communities in the vicinity of the abandoned Panguna copper mine, have taken decisive action to hold the global mining multinational, Rio Tinto, accountable for alleged environmental and human rights violations during the mine’s operations between 1972 and 1989. ....

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