| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (54 min. 6 sec.) ; 323654049 bytes |
| Summary |
NITV's 'Just Us' month presents this powerful documentary about the environmental battle between Papua New Guinea land owners and BHP, the multinational mining, metals and petroleum company, responsible for dumping billions of tonnes of copper waste into their rivers.In a remote Papua New Guinea province the landowners are in a complex struggle with a multinational over their rights and their environment. By 2001, BHP had dumped billions of tonnes of tailings from the Ok Tedi copper mine into the Ok Tedi and Fly River systems. Many villagers, their food supply poisoned by mine pollution and dependent on compensation payments, are strongly attracted to BHP's offers of money and community projects. A small group of landowners - the protagonists in the film - desperately try to convince local people, lured by company promises, not to sign their rights away. This powerful documentary explores the damage done to the lives of the Papuan people by the Ok Tedi coppermine in this unforgivable story where greed takes precedence over humanity.Follow the conversation on Twitter: #NITV |
| Event |
Broadcast 2014-08-04 at 20:30:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: M |
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Copper industry and trade -- Waste disposal.
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Mines and mineral resources -- Waste disposal.
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Papuans -- Social life and customs.
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Papua New Guinea.
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Streaming video
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| Author |
Katut, Paul, contributor
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Moken, Robin, contributor
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