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PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara Polluting Senunu Bay

Walhi NTB has said that tailings from PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (PT NNT)'s Batu Hijau gold and copper mine are polluting the environment. The waste contains heavy metals and chemical elements, such as Arsenic (As), Barium (Ba), Cadmium (Cd), Cuprum (Cu), Plumbum / lead (Pb), Selenium (Se), and Silver (Ag), and is discharged on the sea bed through pipes more than 100 meters below the surface in Senunu Bay.

Minister of Environment: Detoxify Newmont's Tailings In Sulawesi

In his statement published in a North Sulawesi local daily (20/06/00), the Minister of Environment/Head of the National Environmental Impact Analysis Board (Bapedal) said that Newmont Minahasa Raya (NMR) in Minahasa, Sulawesi, must carry out an Ecological Risk Assessment (ECA) on its tailings dumping system into Buyat bay.

Newmont's ocean dumping (STD) impacts - new proofThrough their community mapping of the waters of Buyat Bay from 15-30 June 2000, members of the community of Buyat Beach in Minahasa, North Sulawesi, found proof of the environmental damage caused PT Newmont Minhasa Raya’s (PTNMR) tailings (finely crushed rock as waste from mining processes) disposal.

For further information: Contact JATAM
(Indonesian Mining Advocacy Network)

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