INDONESIAN environmental watchdog, Wahli, in a new report has accused owners of the Grasberg mine in the province of Papua, US-based Freeport McMoran and Rio Tinto, of knowingly breaching environmental regulations and causing more extensive toxic contamination of local water supplies due to acid rock drainage than first thought.
The 119-page report claims to have accessed internal Freeport and Rio Tinto environmental risk assessment documents as well as Indonesian Government reports not previously made available to the
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