Report Documents Poisoning Of Villagers After Toxic Release From Porgera Mine In Papua New Guinea

Report Documents Poisoning Of Villagers After Toxic Release From Porgera Mine In Papua New Guinea   Reports from Papua New Guinea detail the aftermath of an unusually high discharge of un-neutralized waste at Barrick Gold's Porgera mine. The discharge - which reportedly occurred on July 27, 2010 - poisoned dozens of locals, whose accounts are documented in a recent report produced by the Porgera Alliance, a coalition of human rights and landowner groups.   According to Mark Ekepa, chairman of...

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