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Inco contract questioned

... La Ode Kaimoeddin has complained on several occasions about the company's inactivity and suggested that it should hand the ...

Story - Anonymous - 12/20/2011 - 15:20 - 0 attachments

Communities force Wilmar to address bad practices

... a member of the RSPO. In spite of concerns raised by NGOs about Wilmar's operations, the IFC made three investments to the group and ... to buyers in Europe and the USA. Diesel represents about 60% of road transport fuel consumed within Europe. If the whole of PT ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:10 - 0 attachments

IFIs line up with companies to push GM crops

... companies. NGOs are questioning the basic assumptions about poverty and sustainability behind the biotech industry's arguments. Since ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:20 - 0 attachments

DTE activities update

... last year) published a compilation of information about BP's Tangguh project in West Papua, focusing on the social, environmental ...

Story - carolyn - 09/07/2012 - 09:22 - 0 attachments

More doubts emerge over BP's Tangguh project

... social and cultural disruption, increased tension brought about by increased police and military presence in the region, and the ... human rights concerns There is widespread concern about security at Tangguh because the Indonesian military have a legal ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:17 - 0 attachments

NGOs oppose South Kalimantan pulp mill

... and profitability while in practice these mills bring about environmental, social and economic havoc. The planned pulp mill would be ... policy of not distributing it raises further questions about the environmental sustainability of the project. In this situation, ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:15 - 0 attachments

Communities challenge palm oil industry promises of sustainability

... from Europe where there is higher consumer awareness about sustainability. In contrast, India and China are huge markets which are ... largely ignores local people's concerns, but it does care about foreign investment. A the same time, district government heads (bupati) ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:12 - 0 attachments

MIFEE Project Violates Human Rights

... seems to have refused to listen to reports about the destruction of the environment, the food culture of the traditional ... Indonesian president last year expressing the same views about MIFEE. A field visit to Merauke by the environmental NGO WALHI in June ...

Story - carolyn - 12/20/2011 - 15:50 - 0 attachments

Agrofuels: key driver in new landgrabbing wave

... social and economic tests. If it fails, the claims about jatropha’s potential as a champion agrofuel feedstock will indeed, be ... 38 000 ha have been developed into productive plantations. About 1.5 million ha of new plantation permits are being processed by ...

Story - carolyn - 07/11/2013 - 11:49 - 0 attachments

Talking Tangguh

... radio programme, " Earthwise " of Plains FM 96.9 Radio, about BP and local communities in Bintuni Bay, West Papua - site of the massive ...

Story - carolyn - 05/22/2014 - 12:54 - 1 attachment