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Well-intentioned businesses have been enthusiastic customers of carbon credits. They've been offsetting their emissions by buying credits from companies promising to stop exploitative timber harvesting, whilst lifting locals out of poverty. But there is a vast chasm between what is marketed and what is really happening on the ground. In Papua New Guinea, one company is wreaking environmental deva…
Some environmentalists call it the second Amazon; the Sepik River Basin in Papua New Guinea is a natural wonder few outsiders get to see. But like the Amazon, this remote region is being plagued by logging, land grabs and violence.
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The Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea has made a $16bn deal to extract the country's natural gas. His people have responded with violent protests, which could plunge the troubled nation back into chaos.
This is the modern-day story of a native peoples' remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) - and won despite a military occupation and blockade. When RTZ decided to step up production at the Panguna Mine on the island of Bougainville, they got more than they bargained for. The island's people had enough …
As world leaders debate the causes and effects of global warming, we take a look at yet another example of man's damaging behaviour on the environment. In the light of BHP's decision to exit the giant Ok Tedi gold and copper mine in Papua New Guinea, this documentary asks what happens when a foreign mining company bails out of a big project in a developing country? Who wins? Who loses?
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