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APP and debt-financed forest destruction

... and social risks into account when making decisions about APP's debt problems. The audit also investigated claims that the APP ... report by FoE, Paper Tiger, Hidden Dragons 2: APRIL Fools, about the pulp group APRIL, is available on  www.foe.co.uk . ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:18 - 0 attachments

Indigenous people's lawsuit fails

... was a disappointment for TATR. "We need time to think about this..," said Zen Smith. (Source:  Minergynews.com, ... 1 km in diameter and 80m deep. There are real questions about the safety of the tailings dam and contamination of water courses and ...

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

Yosepha Alomang - a Papuan woman fighting for human and environmental rights

... adat . This is evident from what Mama Yosepha says about Lemasa, the organisation set up, with her help, to present a united ...

Story - Frances Marr - 12/20/2011 - 15:13 - 0 attachments

Legal or sustainable?

... by Indonesian forest NGO Telapak, to exchange information about FLEGT developments, discuss relevant issues and decide on a joint ... it became clear that there was still a wide range of views about what the legality standard was and what it should be doing. In fact ...

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

BP Tangguh, two years on

... at the Tangguh Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) project, questions about BP and its US$5 billion project in Bintuni Bay, West Papua still haven't ... costs are less visible to the outside world because news about Tangguh is harder to access, due to the transport and communication ...

Story - carolyn - 03/08/2013 - 09:30 - 0 attachments

DTE activities update

... the UK in October. In a statement on raising concern about the takeover of more and more of the country’s land and resources by ... and elsewhere and to challenge the British Government about its policy of increasing arms sales to Indonesia, its training of ...

Story - carolyn - 12/21/2012 - 18:19 - 0 attachments

CSOs tell EU to ‘stop grabbing Indonesia’s land for biofuels’

... Strasbourg Parliaments to ensure that MEPs heard directly about the impacts of EU policies on the ground in producer countries directly ... reducing Indonesian deforestation. Growing public concern about negative impacts makes agrofuels a risky business investment and ...

Story - carolyn - 01/10/2014 - 08:45 - 0 attachments