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New Amnesty International report details violence at Porgera gold mine in Papua New Guinea
By Morey Burnham
February 4, 2010
Amnesty International has released a report urging the Papua New Guinean Government to investigate forced evictions and police violence associated with the Porgera gold mine in the highlands of Papua New Guinea.
Amnesty's report, Undermining Rights: Forced evictions and police brutality around the Porgera gold mine, Papua New Guinea, details the raids on villages that occurred between April- July of 2009, in which at least 130 buildings were burned down and families were forced out of their homes.
Tagged with: barrick, amnesty international, irma, porgera
Take a Stand against the Chuitna coal mine proposal
By Morey Burnham
September 2, 2009
As I blogged earlier, Richard Bass, owner of the world-famous Snowbird ski resort, is bankrolling a coal strip mine proposal in the watershed of Alaska's Chuitna River. It would be Alaska's biggest coal mine. The mine could destroy, beyond hope of recovery, one of Alaska s most productive salmon fisheries, damage the watershed, and threaten the livelihoods of local fishermen.
Tagged with: coal, richard bass, chuitna, snowbird
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