ALERT! Resistance Growing to Ecologically Devastating Chinese Mining Invasion of Madang, Papua New Guinea
Chinese government owned China Metallurgical Construction (MCC) corporation's efforts to establish the massively destructive Ramu Nickel mine in Madang Province [search], Papua New Guinea – the largest investment in metal exploration and mining by the Chinese outside of China – is in serious jeopardy. Local landowners are successfully initiating court cases and protests to demand mine tailings not be dumped into the sea –poisoning fish stocks and causing extreme ecological destruction – or the mine be stopped. The entire project has been mismanaged, marked by shoddy construction; and disregard for local rights, life, and marine and rainforest ecology. Chinese mining investment in Madang against local wishes can only be described as an invasion of sovereign peoples, and will be resisted at all costs.
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Thanks for your excellent work Dr. Glen Barry. Just to let you know, that I have republished your excellent, and uplifting, if somewhat distrubing article as "Madang landowners fight ecologically devastating Chinese mining invasion". It's also linked to from our front page. Sorry that we have been so inconsistent in passing on news of your excellent work.
Australia also faces mining invasions from China on many fronts. To get some information, although it may be somewhat dated, read "Stop the sell-off of Australia's mineral wealth!" of 2 Apr 09.
Although, Australia is formally a democracy, our political rulers are not that much less corrupt than those of Papua New Guinea. Unless, they are stopped, Australia will become just as much an ecologically devasted neo-colony as Papua New Guinea is likely to become.
Posted by: James Sinnamon | April 2, 2010 7:18 AM
It just goes to show that people can make a difference in saving the planet's environment.
Never give up.
Posted by: rudy haugeneder | April 3, 2010 12:17 AM
Thank you for this article. I've added it to Facebook.
Posted by: Jenny Dooley | April 6, 2010 11:01 AM
The Ramu Nickel mine in Madang Province will cause massive environmental destruction and must be banned.
Posted by: Gillian Miller | April 6, 2010 4:09 PM