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	Ok Tedi Mine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mine operations are responsible for one of the worst human-induced environmental disasters in the world.
		The town of Tabubil (population 10,000) was built to serve the mining operation.
		In 1999, BHP admitted that the mine is an ecological disaster.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ok_Tedi_Mine (788 words)

	Ok Tedi mine closure--BHP and PNG government in conflict (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	What's Next for OK Tedi?
		Most important was the admission that even if mining stops tomorrow, given the sheer volume of tailings already in the river and continued erosion from the waste rock dumps adjacent to the mine in the mountains, the problems will grow worse over the next forty years.
		The consultants for the mine caution that nothing can be done for the environment should the mine "go acid." There are indications that continued operation of the mine may increase the chances of acid mine drainage.
		Ok Tedi is the economic engine of the province, where population growth rates are higher than anywhere else in the country.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/oktedi1.htm (3014 words)

	Ok Tedi Mine: Unearthing controversy
		The mineâs main shareholdersâ”Australia-based Broken Hill Proprietary or BHP (renamed BHP Billiton after merging with UK-based Billiton in 2001) and the Papua New Guinea governmentâ”failed for years to respond adequately to the ecological consequences of its operations.
		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.
		They include the linkage of the mine with nation-building and economic development in a newly independent country; the political marginalization of local communities and weakness of local government institutions; the governmentâs over-reliance on BHP for information about environmental costs and benefits; and the governmentâs conflicting role as both mine shareholder and regulator.
	pubs.wri.org /pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=1860 (2083 words)

	Integrating Environmental Considerations into the Economic Decision-Making Process
		The Ok Tedi mine, which is one of the largest open-cut mines in the world, commenced operations in May 1984 in the Star Mountains of Western province.
		The environment surrounding the Ok Tedi mine is humid and tropical, with a natural vegetation of moss forest between the elevations of 1,800 and 2,200 metres, and replaced by upper montane forest beyond.
		Near-bank tracts of vegetation in the lower Ok Tedi are affected because of the effects of sediment inundation on nearby flood plain terraces.
	www.unescap.org /DRPAD/publication/integra/volume3/png/3pg07.htm (1917 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 key component of that agreement is a binding commitment that BHP and their subsidiary Ok Tedi Mining Ltd. construct appropriate tailings containment facilities, expected to cost approximately 350 million dollars.
		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.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol4no1/oktedi.html (1258 words)

	New Ok Tedi crisis
		SULPHIDE-bearing tailings from the Ok Tedi mine have begun to turn into acid on the banks of the Middle Fly River, confronting thousands of villagers with a major environmental crisis.
		Ok Tedi Mining Ltd managing director Keith Faulkner told The National numerous studies are being carried out on ways to tackle ARD, and that mitigation costs could be as high as US$100 million.
		Early mine closure would adversely affect the PNG economy since copper and gold exports from OTML last year were worth K2.06 billion or 25.7% of PNG's total exports.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press844.htm (650 words)

	OTML at a Glance
		The Ok Tedi mine is a major producer of copper concentrate for the world smelting market.
		It is situated at the headwaters of the Ok Tedi ("ok" means "river" in the local Faiwolmin language) in the remote Star Mountains of PNG's Western Province.
		Environmental monitoring and research of the Ok Tedi and Fly River systems has continued to be a significant focus at OTML in response to the well-documented impact of the mine on its environment.
	www.oktedi.com /aboutus/?PHPSESSID=41e81258fbf670a5cc592a8f24fd4524 (468 words)

	Reportage
		The mine has been one of the company's most infamous operations, with an estimated average of 80,000 tonnes of mine waste dumped directly into the Ok Tedi river each day since the mine commenced operation around 1984.
		An agreement between the mining company and the PNG government saw the mine commenced operation without a tailings dam, which was counter to common mining practices across the world.
		The mining company’s own estimates suggest that more than 1350 square kilometres of land along the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers will be affected by vegetation dieback as a result of the river pollution; other estimates put the figure closer to 2700 square kilometres.
	www.uts.edu.au /oth/reportage/stories/2001/oct01/03oktedi.html (1430 words)

	MRF > Development > Indigenous People > Bougainville Island
		The latest revision, the Mining (Ok Tedi Ninth Supplemental Agreement) Act, was passed in December 2001 to allow for the withdrawl of BHP Billiton and transfer of its share of the Ok Tedi operation to a new company, PNG Sustainable Development Program Limited.
		Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML) - Operator of the mining and milling facilities at the Ok Tedi mine, and shipping facilities at the Fly River port of Kiunga in the Western Province.
		OK Tedi could stay open until 2012 - The controversial Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea is expected to remain open until 2012, two years longer than previously thought.
	www.natural-resources.org /minerals/development/indigp/OkTedi.htm (1115 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.
		The measures taken by the company, Ok Tedi Mining Limited (OTML), do not heal the wounds of the past, nor do they seriously attempt to prevent the damage of the future.
		An immediate closure of the mine, however, would be the worst solution to people, who depend on the mine.
	www.rettet-die-elbe.de /oktedi/index.html (894 words)

	Ok Tedi Mine Fails on Environmental Clean Up, Facing Closure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		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)

	Australian mining giant leaves environmental disaster in Papua New Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Australian-British mining giant BHP-Billiton announced at the end of January that it was severing all ties with the Ok Tedi copper mine in Papua New Guinea.
		BHP-Billiton originally intended to close down the mine to avoid further litigation but was opposed by its minority partners, Inmet and the PNG government, which have retained their 18 and 30 percent stakes in the mining project.
		Mining exploration investment has dropped from $87 million in 1988 to less than $10 million in 2001, largely due to fears of economic decline and political instability.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2002/apr2002/png-a09.shtml (1092 words)

	Business page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The governor said he would be pushing for the Ok Tedi to be closed in 2008 rather than 2010 “so that a new developer of the mine could be brought in” to continue mining.
		Sir Moi said recently during a visit to the Western province that the mine was the single biggest contributor to the economy of both PNG and Western province accounting for 25% of Government revenue annually.
		Mining Minister Sam Akoitai also said yesterday that Ok Tedi mine contributed K300 million to the National Government’s coffers last year and this year the mine has performed extremely well with K500 million expected to be paid to the national coffers.
	www.thenational.com.pg /070506/business2.htm (418 words)

	2. Ok Tedi
		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.
		In 2001/2, OTML negotiated Mine Continuation Agreements (MCAs) with 149 villages that cover an area that stretches from Tabubil to the coast, and encompassed all villages located along the Ok Tedi and Fly River, and the villages located along the Tabubil-Kiunga road.
		The first Mine Closure Committee to be established in PNG was the Committee for Ok Tedi.
	www.mineral.gov.pg /GreenPaper/WP2_2.htm (4515 words)

	WRI Features: Unearthing Controversy at the Ok Tedi Mine (July 2003)
		Since the mid-1980s, the copper and gold mine has released about 30 million tons of mine tailings and 40 million tons of waste rock into the Ok Tedi tributary of the Fly River every year.
		With the startup of the Bougainville mine in 1972, which soon became world’s largest copper producer, mining's contribution to national income was substantial.
		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.
	newsroom.wri.org /wrifeatures_text.cfm?ContentID=1895 (986 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)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Ok Tedi Mining Limited officials first noticed the acid rock drainage problem in February, including patches of dead vegetation the size of football fields along the river banks.
		The mine is expected to shut down early next decade, but early closure would hit the PNG economy hard - last year copper and gold exports from the mine were worth 25.7 per cent of the country's export earnings.
		The Ok Tedi mine, in the Star Mountains in PNG's Western Province, employs more than 2,000 people and is 30 per cent owned by the PNG government.
	www.waterconserve.info /articles/reader.asp?linkid=49807 (490 words)

	Ok Tedi Mine
		The current state of the mine and river systems affected is due to poor political choices.
		Back when the mine first opened a trailings dam had been in the makings but had been destroyed by a landslide in January of 1984.
		In 1999, the dredging process was started by OTML and BHP had for the first time since the mine began operating, made a public statement that indeed the Ok Tedi Mine had been polluting the areas downsteam of the river.
	www.uwec.edu /jolhm/EH/Eslinger/BHP.htm (448 words)

	BBC News \| Asia-Pacific \| WWF wants PNG mine shut
		WWF says millions of tons of waste material from the mine pour into the Ok Tedi and Fly river systems each year, much of it outside the area originally predicted to be affected.
		Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP), which operates Ok Tedi and holds a 52% stake, announced earlier in August that it was reconsidering its role, saying that waste management procedures at the mine were not working.
		BHP and its partner, the part-government owned Ok Tedi Mining Ltd, said they would continue operating the mine until the government, the local community and shareholders decided on its long-term future.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/427371.stm (449 words)

	Asia Times: BHP admits Ok Tedi mine is environmental disaster
		BHP, which hopes the gold and copper mine's future will be resolved at its November board meeting, on Wednesday released reports showing damage from mine waste that for well over a decade has flowed down the Ok Tedi river, destroying food gardens, fishing grounds and villages.
		Four years after it ran an advertising campaign proclaiming that the 90 million tons of mine waste it dumped each year into the Ok Tedi river were ''virtually identical'' to natural sediment, BHP admitted its error.
		With the Ok Tedi mine accounting for one-fifth of PNG exports, Marauta is under intense pressure to see that the mine continues.
	www.atimes.com /oceania/AH13Ah01.html (1090 words)

	Mining at Ok Tedi
		The Ok Tedi mine has been in operation since 1984, while the images in these pages are fairly cloudy, some of the environmental damages stemming from mining can be seen.
		The mining township of Tabubil can be seen to the southeast of the mine proper.
		The greatest impact that the Ok Tedi mine has made, however, is sedimentation downriver along the Ok Tedi and Fly Rivers.
	www4.ncsu.edu /~jkjacka/oktedi.htm (479 words)

	Ok Tedi River - 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 (132 words)

	The Mineral Policy Institute - Media Background briefing: BHP: The Quiet Deceiver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Similar to the situation at Ok Tedi- where the river is decimated and locals are now reliant on compensation payments to buy tinned fish- local communities rely significantly on the surrounding marine resources for their food security and livelihoods.
		Mining would continue for up to 20 years and extract up to 33,000 metric tons of nickel from the 660,000 metric tons of rock dug out of the small island.
		Dumping Mine Tailings and Wastes into the Oceans At Gag Island, BHPB is considering submarine tailings disposal- the disposal of mine wastes and tailings into the ocean, a controversial and scientifically unproven method of waste disposal that is effectively prohibited in most Western countries including Australia.
	www.mpi.org.au /companies/bhpb/bhp_deceiver (3029 words)

	Green Left - Cover Story: Environment devastation: BHP lies about Ok Tedi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On a recent visit to the Ok Tedi mine, in the cloudcovered Star Mountains near the Irian Jaya (West Papua) border, I was impressed more than anything by the mine's engineering achievements.
		Explaining that because he would have no credibility with the villagers along the Ok Tedi and Fly Rivers, BHP were carrying in nationals by helicopter to present the "facts" to as many of the 30,000 villagers adversely affected by the mine as possible, before the vote was taken.
		Ok Tedi's annual sales for the year ending May 31, 1995, were $1.02 billion, with declared after tax profits of $250 million.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/1995/211/211p16.htm (1936 words)

	Business page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Resource figures indicate mining can continue for a much longer period than currently imagined once indicated and inferred copper-gold resources are converted to reserves.
		Ok Tedi’s recently released 2005 annual report showed that proven and probable reserves total 214 million tonnes averaging 0.85% copper and 1.11 grams a tonne of gold, down slightly from 250 million tonnes at the end of 2004.
		Ok Tedi had significantly stepped up its near mine exploration activity in recent years and expected to spend about US$5 million (K15.6 million) this year compared with US$6 million (K18.8 million) last year.
	www.thenational.com.pg /062906/business1.htm (452 words)

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