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	Ok Tedi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ok Tedi is a river in Papua New Guinea.
		The source of one of the worst environmental disasters in the world, the Ok Tedi Mine, is located near the headwaters of the river.
		Ok is the word for water or river in the Ok language family.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ok_Tedi (124 words)

	What's Next for OK Tedi?
		Ok Tedi is the economic engine of the province, where population growth rates are higher than anywhere else in the country.
		The Ok Tedi Mine is supposed to have a world class environmental lab and BHP, which until recently was Australia's largest corporation, presumably has the resources to support the very best scientific research.
		While the Ok Tedi Mine was not responsible for this decline, events there are certainly indicative of management problems and poor judgement that resulted in the lower share price.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/oktedi1.htm (3014 words)

	Ok Tedi mine closure--BHP and PNG government in conflict
		Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML), the operator of the mine, is 52 percent owned by BHP and 30 percent by the PNG government.
		The mine, which produces gold, silver and copper, is located at the headwaters of the Ok Tedi River in the heart of PNG near the border with Irian Jaya.
		As a result the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers are biologically dead and the riverbeds have been raised by between 4 and 6 metres.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/sep1999/ok-s14.shtml (977 words)

	Inmet expects 27M tons ore mined at Ok Tedi in '06 - Metals News - Metals Place
		Canada's Inmet Mining Corp. expects ore mined at its OK Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea to reach 27 million metric tons in 2006, the company said in a statement Wednesday.
		In 2005, Ok Tedi produced 193,000 tons of copper and 574,700 troy ounces of gold from 25.4 million tons of ore. This is up from 173,400 tons of copper and 524,500 ounces of gold produced in 2004, it said.
		Ok Tedi is one of the world's largest copper and gold mines and is situated in the Star Mountains region of Papua New Guinea.
	metalsplace.com /metalsnews/?a=3945 (257 words)

	Tedi mine is still OK - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Ok Tedi mine is 30 per cent owned by the PNG government and contributes 15 per cent of the country's gross domestic product, as well as 25 per cent of export income.
		"OK Tedi is no longer a pariah in some of those parts of the industry," he said, referring particularly to financiers and insurance companies.
		He said Ok Tedi continued to dump waste and tailings into the local river system, however it was working hard to reduce the environmental impact by dredging parts of the river and was working to improve the health of the local communities.
	www.smh.com.au - !http: //www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Tedi-mine-is-still-OKs/2004/12/07/1102182269178.html (352 words)

	II Journal: Cleaning up Ok Tedi: Settlement Favors Yonggom People
		On June 12, 1996, BHP and leaders of a group of 30,000 indigenous plaintiffs from the Ok Tedi and Fly Rivers reached an out-of-court settlement.
		The Ok Tedi settlement package established a 90 million dollar trust fund for the people of the Fly River and another 35 million dollars for the communities in the most heavily impacted area of the lower Ok Tedi River.
		The lead plaintiffs, their lawyers, and I were warmly welcomed as we traveled through the villages along the Ok Tedi and Fly Rivers explaining the terms of the settlement.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol4no1/oktedi.html (1258 words)

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		Tabubil, the operational and residential centre of the Ok Tedi project, is a highly stratified township with a few family houses provided for the wealthy, mostly expatriate, elite employees.
		A spatial division division of labour developed between the Ok Tedi enclave and portions of the socio-ecological region closest to the mining project, and as well as a gender division of labour occurred in which men attempted to sell their labour and women took on an increasing share of gardening (Polier 1990).
		When Ok Tedi became the place without work and the roadside villages filled with pasendias, it emphasised a sense of Wopkaimin identity and they became more active in defence of their interests and ancestral domain.
	coombs.anu.edu.au /Depts/RSPAS/RMAP/hyndman.htm (6142 words)

	BHP Billiton > Ok Tedi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The discharge of tailings to the river system that led to our withdrawal from Ok Tedi was not the proposed method of waste disposal when the mine was being developed in the 1980s.
		A dredging operation in the lower Ok Tedi is continuing with localised benefits, and research continues at the mill to improve the recovery of copper in the processing operations.
		BHP Billitonýs exit from Ok Tedi was contingent on an informed consent process by OTML and the PNG Government confirming that villages affected by the mineýs operations consented to the mine continuing to operate, and to the level of compensation for the mineýs environmental impacts.
	www.bhpbilliton.com /bb/sustainableDevelopment/community/okTedi.jsp (645 words)

	Ok Tedi Mine: Unearthing controversy
		Ok Tedi Mining Ltd. (OTML), the company that operates the mine, itself acknowledges that more than 2,000 square kilometers of rain forest could be stunted (OTML 2003b).
		The government gave BHP Billiton legal indemnity from responsibility for future mine-related damage to the Ok Tedi ecosystem, although the legality of this deal may be challenged in the countryâs courts.
		The Ok Tedi mine introduced industrial jobs, urban living, a cash economy, and supermarket food to the region, based around the company town of Tabubil.
	pubs.wri.org /pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=1860 (2083 words)

	Geologic Setting
		The Ok Tedi Intrusive Complex is located on the south flank of a major structure, the Mueller Anticline, near the southern margin of the New Guinea Fold Belt.
		A review of typical ore grades of the main categories of ores at Ok Tedi is given in Table 2, The data in the table indicate the value of the categories of ore and the reasons for distinguishing between types.
		Garnets of grandite (grossular and andradite) composition and clinopyroxene of diopside-hedenbergitic composition are the dominant minerals in the Ok Tedi skarns.
	www.fortunecity.co.uk /safaripark/lamprey/108/geolset.htm (3427 words)

	Court to approve Ok Tedi class action
		BHP Billiton yesterday confirmed that a settlement has been reached in the April 2000 landowner class action brought against both the group and the operator of the environmentally controversial Ok Tedi copper/goldmine in Papua New Guinea, Ok Tedi Mining Ltd.
		The settlement was revealed at the weekend by OTML's 18 per cent shareholder, Inmet Mining of Canada.
		The class action alleged breaches of the 1996 settlement agreement and sought damages, the specific performance of the agreement and/or an injunction to require the implementation by BHP Billiton and OTML of a tailings containment system.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press236.htm (270 words)

	Integrating Environmental Considerations into the Economic Decision-Making Process
		Ok Tedi Mining Limited also sponsored a study by the Australian Institute of Marine Science of the effects of tailings and waste rock dumping from the mine.
		The results of those studies have done little to reassure some of the communities living around the delta who believe that the dumping is a direct cause of the loss of fish species in the river system and a decline in their livelihood.
		The legal action was taken against BHP as the operator of the Ok Tedi mine in a Melbourne court.
	www.unescap.org /drpad/publication/integra/volume3/png/3pg02d03.htm (696 words)

	The Ok Tedi Settlement: Issues, Outcomes and Implications
		The Ok Tedi Settlement contains an introduction by the editors, discussing the quality of the media coverage and describing the background to the workshop, and eleven papers by a wide range of contributors.
		David King argues that the primary problem facing the people of the Fly and Ok Tedi Rivers, the one highest among their priorities, is underdevelopment, exacerbated by an influx of refugees from Indonesia.
		In contrast, Stuart Kirsch argues that the Ok Tedi mine is primarily an environmental and ecological issue; he also looks at the case as a legal precedent, at the strengths and weaknesses of foreign tort litigation.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Ok_Tedi.html (448 words)

	The Ok Tedi Pages - Introduction
		Ok Tedi Mine starts its final ten years with bright economic expectations: highest ore concentrations, a well trained staff, proof equipment, and the credits paid.
		Since the beginning of copper mining at Ok Tedi, NA is an important customer, which at present receives approximately 20% of Ok Tedi mine's production.
		The issue of that dialogue shall be a possible contribution of NA for the relief of ecological and social damages.
	www.rettet-die-elbe.de /oktedi (894 words)

	Ok Tedi Mining Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		From Tabubil to the mine, a 20 km access road was laid, and between Tabubil and Kiunga, the port on the Fly River, another new road had to be built.
		On the Ok Menga, a tributary south of Tabubil, a power plant was installed, that serves the mine and the town.
		Despite enormous rainfall on Mt. Fubilan, additional water from another river is deviated to the mine, to feed the flotation facility.
	www.rettet-die-elbe.de /oktedi/mining_town.htm (215 words)

	Ok Tedi Mine Fails on Environmental Clean Up, Facing Closure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In a major turnaround in June, BHP announced that it was considering early closure of the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea to reduce environmental impacts which were worse than the company had previously envisioned.
		While BHP held out on final decisions about its involvement in Ok Tedi based on recent studies - saying they would decide by the end of August - the company concluded that the early closure of the mine is an option to mitigate the environmental damage.
		BHP is the managing partner in the joint venture which owns and operates the controversial Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea, with Inmet of Canada and the PNG government.
	www.moles.org /ProjectUnderground/drillbits/4_12/4.html (763 words)

	Record dividend by PNG's Ok Tedi mine - Breaking News - Business - Breaking News
		The company running Papua New Guinea's giant Ok Tedi copper and gold mine has announced a record dividend to shareholders amid warnings of worsening environmental impacts for communities along the Fly River.
		Releasing the company's annual results on Tuesday, Ok Tedi Mining Ltd managing director Keith Faulkner announced a 230 per cent increase in the dividend to shareholders on the back of strong world metal prices and trimmed operating costs.
		Ok Tedi remained PNG's biggest single contributor to the economy and the company's dividends were in addition to its tax payments of nearly 279 million kina ($A127 million) to the PNG Treasury, Faulkner said.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Business/Record-dividend-by-PNGs-Ok-Tedi-mine/2006/01/31/1138590494391.html (560 words)

	II Journal: Living locally, acting globally: indigenous eco-politics in Papua New Guinea
		According to the Australian Conservation Foundation, the seventy kilometer corridor of the Ok Tedi River is "biologically dead." For the Yonggom people who live in the villages along the Ok Tedi River, the impact of the mine is devastating.
		In the Ok Tedi case, the more pressing concern is how the Yonggom are forced to translate their views into the discourse of global environmentalism so that they may effectively argue their case in the global context.
		In a conference held to debate environmental policy in Port Moresby in 1993, a Papua New Guinean executive of the Ok Tedi Mine argued that pollution along the river was an acceptable "trade-off" if citizens of the country wished to achieve their goal of wearing shirts and neckties and working in offices like Australians.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol3no3/kirsch.html (2799 words)

	05/24/00 -- Ok Tedi wants new litigation fast tracked (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		OK Tedi Mining Ltd last week asked the Supreme Court in Victoria to get the case against it to trial as soon as possible as the case was causing difficulties with efforts to consult communities living along the Ok Tedi and Fly River, the company has said in a statement.
		Mr Dagi is asking the Victorian court to order the construction of a 130 kilometres tailings pipeline from the mine to the Lower Ok Tedi, plus damages.
		The Ok Tedi counsel said that OTML was anxious to get the case to trial as soon as possible so that claim could be dealt with and these processes could continue in the right place with the right people.
	forests.org /archive/png/oktewant.htm (496 words)

	MM March 1996
		BHP's Ok Tedi copper and gold mine is located on Mount Fubilan in the Star Mountains adjacent to the West Papuan border.
		Ok Tedi is the third largest open-cut copper mine in the world, and accounts for 16 percent of the country's export earnings.
		BHP has always claimed that it discarded plans to build a tailings dam at Ok Tedi only after its initial effort at dam-building was destroyed by a landslide, demonstrating that it was infeasible to construct a dam in the area.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/mm0396.05.html (3078 words)

	The Mineral Policy Institute - Z Net Commentary on Ok Tedi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Not surprisingly the waste is having a devastating impact and the company acknowledges it will kill over two thousand square kilometres of forest along the Fly/Ok Tedi, and cause a possible total collapse of the fishery, in addition to the 70 to 90% of fish that are already dead in the Ok Tedi River.
		The injunction is on the basis that by one person signing the Agreement, all of the people in that community are supposed to opt out of the legal action in Australia, that is the action against BHP for breach of the 1996 settlement.
		Ok Tedi is an extraordinary case not just for the scale and impact of one company’s damage, but for the excellent documentation and knowledge of a process that has seen a major corporation take as many liberties as it can create and are granted.
	www.mpi.org.au /campaigns/waste/riverine/private_power (1536 words)

	WRI Features: Unearthing Controversy at the Ok Tedi Mine (July 2003)
		Starting in the late 1980s, the Yonggom people and their downstream neighbors petitioned mining company and government officials to address the pollution and flooding that were destroying traditional subsistence lifestyles, forcing some villagers to relocate.
		In 1992, a group of indigenous landowners presented their grievances against Ok Tedi Mining to the International Water Tribunal in The Hague.
		After the case became an international cause celebre, the indigenous peoples living along the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers launched a series of suits against BHP in the Australian courts.
	newsroom.wri.org /wrifeatures_text.cfm?ContentID=1895 (986 words)

	Resource Development and Health in Papua New Guinean Ok Tedi Mines
		The spectrum of pathology has certainly changed radically in the OK Tedi region since the first clinical epidemiological study was carried out in 1978, when malaria, anemia, malnutrition and respiratory and other infectious diseases predominated and the life expectancy was low (Taukuro, et al 1980).
		However, BHP has mined millions out of Ok Tedi, and the waste products of this have been unceremoniously dumped into the river. For such a multi-national company to continuously to proceed with such environmentally destructive action for years, even after the landowners and people in the area made claims of damages, is totally irresponsible.
		There are broader implications of the Ok Tedi litigation that include the preservation of the cultural health of indigenous people.
	www.tropmed.org /rreh/vol1_8.htm (1044 words)

	Planet Ark : Ok Tedi eyes copper mill restart next week
		SINGAPORE - Ok Tedi Mining Ltd in Papua New Guinea said yesterday it was aiming to resume full production of copper concentrate by around next week after a mill failure that cut output by 40 percent from the end of January.
		Ok Tedi said on January 27 it would lose around 40 percent of total production for eight to 10 weeks after a mechanical failure at one of its two SAG, or semi-autogenous grinding, mills.
		Ok Tedi is owned 52 percent by the PNG Sustainable Development Program, 30 percent by the Papua New Guinea government and 18 percent by Inmet Mining Corp (IMN.TO: Quote, Profile, Research) of Canada.
	www.planetark.org /dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/24210/story.htm (478 words)

	2. Ok Tedi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The Ok Tedi mine is located in a remote area of the Star Mountains in Western Province.
		The importance of the Ok Tedi mine to the PNG economy is clearly evident, with the mine often contributing more than 20% of the value of exports.
		While the Ok Tedi Development Foundation and the SDPC will be independent, it is envisaged that the Foundation will utilise a considerable proportion of the funds made available from the SDPC in Western Province.
	www.mineral.gov.pg /GreenPaper/WP2_2.htm (4515 words)

	Papua New Guinea – Ok Tedi River Project
		The contract was awarded in 1997 by Ok Tedi Mining (OTML), operator of one of the world’s largest gold and copper mines.
		This has led to navigational difficulties on the Fly River, to which the Ok Tedi is a tributary.
		During this period the river was studied to calculate the optimum balance between rates of infill and dredge capacity.
	www.deme.be /projects/papua_oktedi.html (423 words)

	Asia Times: Legal action starts over Ok Tedi mine
		MELBOURNE - Legal action is starting over the Ok Tedi copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) as landowners instruct solicitors Slater & Gordon to start the case.
		The landowners claim tailings waste from the mine, which is being dumped into the Ok Tedi and Fly Rivers, has destroyed their traditional lifestyle.
		Ok Tedi Mining Ltd (OTML), which is 50 percent owned by BHP, said that it was concerned litigation over the 1996 settlement agreement for Ok Tedi would have adverse impact on consultation with PNG communities affected by the mine.
	www.atimes.com /oceania/BD12Ah02.html (247 words)

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