Ore is dumped into the primary crusher 2:10. This is one of the problems of the resource curse, you have these big revenues sitting in bank accounts that can be misappropriated quite easily, he said. "Some of these are within the control of the company itself, others less so. Every new rainfall brought more tailings downstream and changed the course of the waterways, making life especially challenging for the hundreds of people who eke out a precarious existence panning the tailings for remnants of gold. In 2010, using interviews with BCL executives and internal company documents, Dr Kristian Lasslet of the University of Ulster published adverse findings about the company from during the period of civil war. The first Bougainville independence movement began to arise in the late 1960s, as people began to air their grievances against the then Australian colonial government over the handling of the Panguna mine. It ended the day at 89 cents, up 122.5%. Joe Stevens emailed from Western Australia: My name is Joe Stevens, I first went to Bougainville in 1969 and remained until Feb 1990 I worked for Pioneer Concrete for two years, then BCL Civil Works, Laurie Mentze, Ross Wilson, Ian Garside and Win Spurr. Construction continues at a rapid pace 25:27. The villages were varying from five or six houses to twenty or thirty houses" (Personal Communication, 2006). The mine at Panguna was opened in 1972 and majority-owned by Rio Tinto.It was important to the economy of Papua New Guinea, but the people of Bougainville were seeing little benefit from it.The first Bougainville independence movement arose in the late 1960s, as people aired their grievances against the Australian colonial government over the handling of the Panguna mine. Army stands guard over the Panguna copper mine. The company spokesperson pointed to a referendum in late 2019, during which around 98% of voters said that Bougainville should be fully independent of PNG. As the last ten years has proven, Bougainvilleans are a forgiving people. Tap into Getty Images' global scale, data-driven insights, and network of more than 340,000 creators to create content exclusively for your brand. They were the only ones that could come, and put a lid on this thing before it got out of hand" (Personal Communication, 2006). If you want to post a public comment, you can do that at the bottom of the page. But that race has also already sparked intense political disagreement between rival groups on the island. Concrete is poured for foundations 16:15. The manoeuvring over the gigantic, mothballed Panguna mine comes ahead of an independence referendum later this month that could turn Bougainville into the worlds newest nation after disputes over foreign mining prompted a bloody, 10-year war that killed perhaps 15,000 people. Once the backbone of the Papua New Guinea economy, Panguna has been idle since the civil war began more than 30 years ago - a war the mine was at least . Credit:Ben Bohane. The Panguna mine is set to reopen after landowners in Bougainville agreed to the decision, 30 years after it was forced to shut amid a civil war between local rebels and the government of Papua. Adams said she doesnt agree with that reasoning, which she said has become something of a mantra for the company since its divestment in 2016. Had he, Mr Sturm would have discovered that my findings are based upon interviews with General Managers and three Managing Directors who steered BCL during the 1987-1991 period. Water flows were blocked in many places, creating large areas of swampland and disrupting the livelihoods of hundreds of people in communities downstream of the mine. Eighteen months later, Rio Tinto decided to divest from its local subsidiary in control of the Panguna mine, Bougainville Copper Limited, handing over its majority stake to the governments of PNG and Bougainville. 2023 Getty Images. I have found no evidence to suggest BCL were forced by the PNG government to make this contribution. Under his Prime Ministership the Papua New Guinea security forces - in an effort to reopen the mine - executed and tortured civilians, systematically destroyed villages, and imposed a blockade on Bougainville, which included the denial of humanitarian aid. The Getty Images design is a trademark of Getty Images. In fact Mr Lasslett's critique of the company's complicity in human rights abuses, during the first 15 months of the bloody conflict, is quite measured. 5. Country Partnership Strategy: Papua New Guinea, 2021-2025 INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH ASSESSMENT A. It cannot be the case that a company can be seen to improve its environmental social governance standards, simply by cutting and running from any projects that pose a high risk and high liability to them, Adams said. 3. Mongabay Series: Land rights and extractives. Economic structure and growth 1. Yet this reconciliation to some extent holds a key to international reconciliation among Bougainville, Australia and Papua New Guinea". Indeed, Panguna along with the socially and environmentally disastrous Ok Tedi mine in the western highlands of PNG are widely credited with forcing the industry to reassess its social license to operate. London Calling asks: did Rio Tinto fund war on Bougainville? Caballus Mining was set up only in August 2018. Battle intensifies over Bougainville copper mine and civil war legacy SBS is an Australian public broadcast service. The Panguna copper mine in Bougainville was closed in 1989. divested its shares and walked away in 2016. "President (John) Momis has been proactive in assisting the company carry out safety work. Jungle vines are cut back 15:10. More recently a new player, Caballus Mining, has arrived in Bougainville. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com, There are no reviews yet. They also used information from stories compiled by the Catholic Diocese of Bougainville from affected communities between 2017 and 2019. On satellite images, the Panguna mine yawns amid the otherwise green mountain forests of central Bougainville Island in the South Pacific, a silty river valley tracing a jagged path from the mine south and west to Empress Augusta Bay. Environment Minister Sussan Ley faces a critical test: will she let a mine destroy koala breeding grounds? They were very heavy handed in the way they handled disputes in the HighlandsIt was a case, somebody has to come. BCL/Handout via REUTERS. But what lies ahead remains deeply concerning for the people of Bougainville, according to the people that Adams and her colleagues spoke with, who said they have been left with few options. If you threw a rock at them you would get ten rocks thrown back. (AAP Image: Ilya Gridneff) The Bougainville Government has also criticised the consortium for paying landowners who support them and implied it is not respecting the approval process. The production had a value of 5.2 billion Kina (K) which represented approximately 44 per cent of Papua New Guineas exports over that period. Karoona Maket 21:14. The power plant will supply the towns of Arawa and Panguna with electricity as well as to the mining facility 18:05. The Panguna mine is a large copper mine located in the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, in the east of Papua New Guinea.Panguna represents one of the largest copper reserves in Papua New Guinea and in the world, having an estimated reserve of one billion tonnes of ore copper and twelve million ounces of gold. Uploaded by This derelict mine caused a bloody war. The PNG national government received a 20% share of profit from the mine, of which the Bougainvilleans received 5% - 1.25% share of the total profit.[3]. Bougainville Copper Ltd (BCL) yesterday announced a loss of K3.7 million in 2011 . Are they fking mad? asks one former Rio Tinto executive who worked at the company when it was the majority owner of Bougainville. Die Bougainville Copper Ltd.Shs Aktie wird unter der ISIN PG0008526520 an den Brsen Frankfurt, Dsseldorf, Mnchen, Stuttgart, Berlin, Sydney, Nasdaq OTC, Gettex, Tradegate, Lang & Schwarz und. Iron ore magnate Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest has joined the race with an unruly bunch of small, struggling mining companies, all with links to Australia and share prices of 10c or less, for access to some of the worlds biggest copper and gold deposits on the Pacific island of Bougainville. on June 23, 2020, This is a 1960s era, color movie about the Bougainville Copper Project in Papua, New Guinea. Momis initially supported a moratorium on mining at Panguna to avoid reigniting old conflicts between landowner groups. Bougainville Copper Limited is now an independently managed company. In a paper out on Wednesday The Scramble for Resources - The International Race for Bougainville's Mineral Wealth, Jubilee Australia has laid out the steps . MELBOURNE, Australia An independent investigation will begin on Tuesday into the environmental and human rights impact of an abandoned gold and copper mine in Papua New Guinea . More than 150 people in Bougainville have filed a complaint against the embattled Rio Tinto company. Bougainville Copper Limited (BOC), an ASX-listed company, is an independently-managed company of Papua New Guinea that is publicly listed on the ASX (Australian Securities Exchange). Bougainville displays great cultural diversity in a relatively small region. "The company has sufficient funds to cover its recurrent expenditure under the current plan and is debt free.". 3,000 inhabitants of Panguna will work at the mine 18:40. I expressed the view that CRA would want to review its assessment of PNG as a place to invest. A ship in the bay 22:07. Rivers and streams became filled with silt and significantly widened. But Bougainville Copper simply abandoned the site in the face of a landowner rebellion. The moratorium was put in place in early 2018, but the government now appears to favour mining across the island as a means to generate income and underwrite independence. 6 inches of rain per hour. A total of K1,088 million was contributed to the National Government, which represented 62 per cent of the net cash generated by the project between 1972 1989. At the time CRA was investing heavily in mineral projects at Hidden Valley in Morobe, and Mount Klare in Enga (Post-Courier, 29/11/1988; Business Review Weekly, 9/6/1989). In its heyday, the mine, which would take an estimated $US5 billion in infrastructure spending to restart, was a productive asset for Rio Tinto, then known as Conzinc Rio Tinto. A 16th century map 5:41. Australian External Territories Minister Charles Barnes was accused of telling the Bougainvillean people they would "get nothing". A BCF official informed me that during a security operation in March/April 1989, "forty, fifty villages, and the crops [were destroyed]. 1 talking about this. Matthew G. Allen has received funding from an Australian Research Council fellowship DE140101206. Since the end of mining activities 30 years ago, tailings have continued to move down the rivers and the waterways have never been treated for suspected chemical contamination. This claim was confirmed by a senior civil servant who was working in Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister's department: "We relied heavily on some of the civilian facilities provided by the company. The PNG national government received a 20% share of profit from the mine, of which the Bougainvilleans received 5% - 1.25% share of the total profit. Narrators John Worthy, Sam Bena. "It is possible that some further remediation work will be carried out on site with the co-operation of landowners, to make areas safe whether mining proceeds or not," he said. Contributions to the National Government in the form of taxes, duties and dividends were approximately 17 per cent of internally generated Papua New Guinean Government revenue during that time. Bougainville has voted to become a new country, but the journey to independence is not yet over. The war continued well after the mine closed as a battle of control for the country raged between the Bougainville Revolutionary Army and the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. ( Image from archives via Bougainville Copper Limited.) Bougainville Copper mine in PNG shut in 1989 on stock market TWENTY four years after the world's largest copper mine was closed due to a civil war, the majority Rio Tinto - owned Bougainville Copper Limited still floats on the Australian Stock Exchange. And the second was that there was always these threats that they were going to sell off the mine equipment" (Personal Communication, 2006). Already the tussle for Panguna has sparked a race to promise the best deal and the highest royalties to landowners while stemming the environmental degradation that has ravaged Bougainville. Read more: Several sources linked to the company and NGOs operating on the island said this was due to the request by the government that the miners are not seen to be influencing the independence vote. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. I took it from Mr Sturm's statement, he had not bothered to familiarise himself with my research on the Bougainville conflict. Landowner concerns with their treatment when the mine was previously operated led to civil unrest and closure of the mine. Different equipment is displayed in demonstrated 20:30. Its clear the time has come for Rio to finally take responsibility for cleaning up the mess on Bougainville. Mining giant Rio Tinto Group, which was historically Bougainville Copper Limited's major shareholder, exited on 30 June 2016 when it transferred its 53.8 per cent shareholding for distribution to the Autonomous Bougainville Government and the Independent State of Papua New Guinea. Consistent with business development activities, representatives from Fortescue have visited Bougainville Island to learn about the region and potential opportunities., Businessman Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest during a state dinner in Washington in September.Credit:Alex Ellinghausen. [9], In January 2018, the Bougainville government enacted an indefinite moratorium on renewing the licence of BCL over fears it could reignite violent civil conflict. Editing by Gerald Varney. I spent several nights in a large two-story house built entirely from a single tree dragged out of the tailings dragged upright, with a tractor. BCL must publicly apologise for its evidenced role in the Bougainville conflict. A peace agreement was signed in 2001 and Bougainville was given greater autonomy within PNG, with a non-binding referendum in favour of independence . All friends up till the closure of the mine. These interviews were triangulated through extensive documentary research, using internal BCL records including meeting minutes and company memorandums (these documents became available following two court cases involving BCL and its parent company). Re-opening Panguna would be a disaster., Rebel guerillas above the Panguna copper and gold mine in Bougainville in 1994.Credit:Ben Bohane. Lets examine what led to the ongoing crisis. In this respect, BCL can make an important contribution to democracy and reconciliation in Bougainville by, a) fully disclosing their role in the conflict; and b) making amends with those affected by their actions. BCL placed substantive pressure on the Papua New Guinea government to send the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary Mobile Squads - a paramilitary style force, who according to their own commanders excel in the use of terror (RPNGC Assistant Commissioner, Personal Communication, 2006) - to Bougainville in 1988, following attacks on mine property by a landowner group. I remained somewhat aloof during the controversy elicited by an SBS report in June 2011, as I feel my research speaks for itself - on reflection, I perhaps erred in not correcting factual inaccuracies that were subsequently reported in the media (see Callick 2011). AliExpress.com Product - Infinix Zero 8 8GB 128GB Smart Phone New Global Version 6.85'' 90Hz Full Screen 64MP Quad Camera 4500mAh Battery 33W Charger No environmental impact study was carried out. Following the discovery of vast copper ore deposits in Crown Prince Range, Bougainville Copper Limited (Bougainville Copper or the company) operated a large open pit mine and processing facility at Panguna in central Bougainville in the North Solomons Province of Papua New Guinea (PNG) between 1972 and 1989. Hundreds of millions of tonnes of tailings were deposited in the rivers. Man in the laboratory testing the soil for copper content 8:54. For 17 years in the 1970s and 1980s, the mine was one of the worlds largest for copper and gold. On 1 July 2016, Bougainville Copper Limiteds major shareholder, Rio Tinto, transferred its 53.8 per cent shareholding for distribution to the Autonomous Bougainville Government, for the benefit of Panguna landowners and the people of Bougainville, and to the Independent State of Papua New Guinea. The mine, located in Bougainville, was centrally important to Papua New Guinea, providing over 45% of the country's national export revenue. Its sole director is Arabian horse breeder and luxury goods dealer Jeff McGlinn a man who posted a flashy social media video of Saudi royalty at a luxury event, and another of him giving one of his fine equines to classical crossover singer Andrea Bocelli. There was no answer from Caballus in response to a series of questions, including regarding its links to Bougainville Advance Mining and how it achieved such a prime position. This public disclosure should document the logistical support BCL supplied to the government's security forces between December 1988 and March 1990. Unit 3: Transition and Change - Bougainville Case Study 1 Additional Support Material Bougainville - Background Notes From 1987 to December 1997 Bougainville Copper The Bougainville Copper Agreement of 1974 was signed with some resentment on the part of the Bougainvillean landowners. Over 10 years we help companies reach their financial and branding goals. [10], In February 2018, BCL begun legal proceedings against the Autonomous Bougainville Government following the cancellation of the exploration license. Bougainville later gained fame for his expeditions, including circumnavigation of the globe in a scientific expedition in 1763 and the first recorded settlement on the island of Bougainville. FEEDBACK: Use this form to send a message to the author of this post. My specific claims relate to a small window in the company's life, 1988-1990, where decisions were taken that implicated BCL in the hostilities, and the human rights abuses they generated. Be worried when fossil fuel lobbyists support current environmental laws. The landowners demanded more than $10 billion in compensation. The people of PNG and Bougainville have a significant stake in Bougainville Copper, with the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) holding a 36.4 per cent share in the company, as does the Independent State of Papua New Guinea. Bougainville Copper (ISIN PG0008526520) is an Australian-listed copper company which lost its main asset due to a civil war on the island of Bougainville during the 1990s. It was operated by Bougainville Copper Limited, a subsidiary of what is now Rio Tinto, until 2016 when Rio handed its shares to the governments of Bougainville and PNG. But shares in the . Photograph: Torsten Blackwood/AFP via Getty. But in the wake of that expected vote, there is a real risk of new disputes between landowner groups as miners, many with links to Australia, could reignite the crisis that engulfed the island 30 years ago. Only then will BCL shareholders find the certainty they demand. BCL should demand that Rio Tinto - its parent company - cease contesting litigation taken by Bougainvillean landowners in the US, and fully compensate those victimised by the security forces using BCL property/facilities. It's really shameful if an expert in criminology completely ignores facts and reality. These allegations were previously denied by BCL's former Chairman, but Dr Lasslett insists on their veracity. The petition has brought the plight of these communities back into the media, but calls for Rio Tinto to clean up its mess have been made for decades. Clouds in the mountains 6:45. Mongabay is a U.S.-based non-profit conservation and environmental science news platform. Production, William Heick, Corrie Grove, Richard Clark and Pat Morgan. Further, Bougainville Coppers presence in the North Solomons Province had promoted the development of significant local business enterprises to provide goods and services required for the mining operation and for the residents of the province. Already, former Rio subsidiary BCL and Australian-Toronto based RTG Mining have been slugging it out via statements on their websites or on the Australian Securities Exchange. Please try again later. Previously run by Rio Tinto, the mine was at the centre of a decade-long conflict over allegations that locals were being ripped off and the environment damaged by foreign mining companies. Prince Philip tours the mine 22:53. President Momis asserted that progressing with BCL could "cause a total explosion of the situation again". On the 23rd of April 2012, Act Now posted a blog I had written on BCL and the Bougainville conflict [see above]. But a number of new entrants are also in the game. "The vision to return to active exploration and profitable mining remains and, I am pleased to say, with the active support from local stakeholders to which I have earlier referred.". 8. Local residents informed me it was tens of metres deep in places. [7], A referendum on Bougainville's independence must be held no later than June 2020 under the Bougainville Peace Agreement. The mine produced copper concentrate that also contained significant quantities of gold and silver. 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