Negotiating Community Support for Closure or Continuation of the Ok Tedi Mine in Papua New Guinea

Colin Filer, Phillipa Carr (Jenkins)

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    Abstract

    The Ok Tedi mine has some claim to be an extreme case of a large-scale mine whose closure is beset by politics. Ever since the mine began to operate in 1984, there has been ongoing political debate about whether its operations should continue and, if so, under what conditions. At several moments in its historyin 1985, 1989, 1996, 2001, 2006 and, most recently, 2013the Papua New Guinea (PNG) Government has been obliged to confront this question directly, and on each occasion it has come down in favour of continuation. Nevertheless, the mining company has already begun to scale down its operations in preparation for closure by 2025, if not before, because most of the ore contained in its original deposit of gold and copper has already been mined
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationLarge-scale Mines and Local-level Politics Between New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea
    EditorsColin Filer, Pierre-Yves Le Meur
    Place of PublicationCanberra
    PublisherANU Press
    Pages229-260
    Volume1
    Edition1
    ISBN (Print)9781760461492
    Publication statusPublished - 2017

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