"Bougainville group adamantly against renewed mining", 23 August 2017

A group...'Bougainvilleans United Against Mining' has re-stated its opposition to a resumption of mining at Panguna...

Members of the group joined a blockade that stopped the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) from signing a memorandum of agreement with landowners at Panguna two months ago...

[The group's leader] Mr Onartoo says the ABG is weak and lacks the laws and systems to effectively regulate and deal with a large scale mine...without these mechanisms in place a resumption of mining will cause more harm than good.