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Barrick Gold refuses to relocate villagers who suffer murer, rape and house burning

On 13 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Mine watch

This past July a young man was murdered deep in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea, and Canadians should care.

Why?

Why concern ourselves with this one act of violence in a far away corner of the Pacific, at a time when there is so much violence in the world?

Increased Violence at Barrick's Pogera Mine: Indigenous Ipili send Envoy from Papua New Guinea to Canada

On 12 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Mine Watch

Barrick Gold’s Porgera Joint Venture Mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has long been associated with extreme violence against local men and women by mine security and state police associated with the mine. The level of human rights abuses at the mine has spiked again this year.

Tailngs Ponds are the Biggest Environmental Disaster You've Never Heard of

On 11 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Mine Watch

Phtograph By: Jonathan Hayward, The Canadian Press

The scale is hard to imagine: gray sludge, several feet deep, gushing with the force of a fire hose through streams and forest—coating everything in its path with ashy gunk. What happened on Monday might have been one of North America’s worst environmental disasters in decades, yet the news barely made it past the Canadian border.

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Barrick Gold refuses to relocate villagers who suffer murer, rape and house burning

Increased Violence at Barrick's Pogera Mine: Indigenous Ipili send Envoy from Papua New Guinea to Canada

Tailngs Ponds are the Biggest Environmental Disaster You've Never Heard of