Papua New Guinea: Opposition growing to disposal of mining waste in the ocean by Wafi-Golpu gold & copper mine
摘要
日期: 2020年9月9日
地點: 巴布亞紐幾內亞
企業
Wafi-Golpu (joint venture between Harmony and Newcrest) - Parent Company項目
Wafi-Golpu - Unknown受影響的
受影響的總人數: 數字未知
社區: ( 數字未知 - 地點未知 - 未知行业 , Gender not reported )議題
土著人 , 水的獲取 , Water pollution , Insufficient/inadequate consultation , Impact on notable or protected areas回應
Response sought: 否
資訊來源: News outlet
"PNG opposition grows to dumping mine waste at sea", 9 September 2020
Opposition to the disposal of mining waste in the ocean is growing in Papua New Guinea's Morobe province.
Companies behind the proposed Wafi-Golpu gold and copper mine near Lae plan to pump mine tailings into the Huon Gulf, a process they call Deep Sea Tailings Displacement (DSTD).
The former governor of Papua New Guinea's Morobe province, Keely Naru [said that] the mining companies behind the Wafi-Golpu Joint Venture, Harmony of South Africa and Newcrest from Australia, should be required to ship the tailings back to their countries of origin.
The current governor, Ginson Saonu, has also voiced his opposition to submarine tailings disposal, asking [...] why a traditional tailings dam could not be built on land.
Loop PNG reported the minister, Wera Mori, saying the area was prone to earthquakes and heavy rain that could break a tailings dam, making that option a "recipe for disaster".
Mori sited the collapse of the Ok Tedi tailings dam in Wetern Province in 1984, warning of similarities between the two areas.
[...]
Newcrest described the Western Huon Gulf as a "highly suitable environment" for tailings storage as "it hosts a deep canyon leading to a very deep oceanic basin".
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