Articles About Oil and Gas Company in Indonesia

UNOCAL toxic flood - rice fields were contaminated during a flood in East Kalimantan, on 11 February 2000. A similar incident two years ago (1998) happened on a much larger scale when the company’s tailing pipe overflowed and washed its toxic contents into local rice fields, which contaminated over 417.5 hectares (Ha) of the local rice fields.

A Bad Month For PERTAMINA
This July may have been the worst month in Pertamina’s history. In Jakarta, the public constantly revile this supplier of petroleum, because of the scarcity of gasoline and kerosene. In other places, the focus on Pertamina has been no less intense. In South Sumatra, for example, the daily Sriwijaya Post (18 July 2000) published news regarding “179 companies which do not yet have permission to dispose of waste.” This article mentions that Pertamina is one of the companies which do not yet fulfilled the qualifications for a Waste Disposal Permit.

US government and Mobil Oil turn a blind eye to the suffering of the Acehnese - the US government and Mobil seem oblivious to the countless human rights violations occurring in Aceh.

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