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Ok Tedi

Environmental

Disater

What is it?

Bibligraphy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok_Tedi_environmental_disaster

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/apr2002/png-a09.shtml

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ok_Tedi_Mine

http://www.oktedi.com/community-and-environment/the-environment/impacts-of-mining

The ok tedi is an open-pit copper and gold mine in Papua New Guinea located near the headwaters of the ok tedi river, in mountains of western Papua New Guinea owned by Broken Hill Proprietary (BHP)

Current status?

what happened?

The papua gueina is still operationing

after the disater more modern medicine, clean water and a more varied food supply to the 15 or so thousand people that live in the town of Tabubil.

, In 1999 Ok Tedi environmental disaster happened, due to the annual discharge of millions of tons of mining waste beein dumped in river, has harmed the environment and livelihood of 50,000 people who live on or near the Ok Tedi River.

Cause?

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The waters in the river system were undrinkable and poisonous to people, fish, plants and the wildlife which sustains their life, culture and religion and the this area could dry out maybe in 10 years, maybe in 100, maybe in 1,000 and will cause a major problem for the floodplain and 90 million tons of mine waste is dumped each year into the Ok Tedi river after the disaster which created pollution in ok tedi river.

Mining at Ok Tedi has caused environmental impacts that are greater than were projected at the time of mine planning and commissioning in the 1970s and 1980s.

Each year, the Ok Tedi mine discharges about 90 million tonnes of waste rock and tailings (mined and crushed rock after approximately 85 per cent of the copper has been removed) into the Ok Tedi ('Ok' means 'river' in the local language). This discharge is carried out with PNG Government approval

photo credit Nasa / Goddard Space Flight Center / Reto Stöckli

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