December 7, 2007
Mining Company Involved in Environmental Disaster Now Advises Sustainability Institute at U. of Michigan
In the 1990s, the giant mining company now known as BHP Billiton drew worldwide condemnation for the environmental damage caused by its copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea. Its mining practices destroyed the way of life of thousands of farming and fishing families who lived along and subsisted on the rivers polluted by the mine, and it was only after being sued in a landmark class-action case that the company agreed to compensate them.
Today several activists and academics who
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