Indonesian blogger, Ong Hock Chuan, has taken up the case for Richard Ness, an American mining executive falsely accused by environmental NGO's of deliberately polluting Buyat Bay in northern Sulawesi.
In a recent post Ong invited Wahli, the Indonesian arm of Friend's of the Earth and the group who's false accusations led to the arrest of Ness, to put their case at his blog.
This was their response:
“I’ve read your blog and my oppinion is there’s nothing we (Walhi) could discuss further about such topic you’ve thrown on your blog since you started it without critical question about ‘how businesses and NGOs can work together to protect and improve the environment’ like you said in your email below. i don’t know what your intention here but we refuse to answer your call to put our organization in such ‘brutal’ discussion in your blog."
I don't know, I reckon Ong's blog would be much less brutal than an Indonesian jail... where Whali want to send Richard Ness.
Read the complete blog post here: http://theunspunblog.com/2007/01/31/australias-watching-where-is-walhi-newmont-and-the-other-players/
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To read more about Richard Ness, and for more background on the trial read Eric's blog, click here. If you want to know who Eric is, click here.
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In regards to Newmont, one need only look at the method they used at this mine in Northern Sulawesi to get an inkling of the system of corruption that allows such polluting foreign operations to thrive in Indonesia. For that mine Newmont used the archaic "deep sea disposal" method. I.e, all the millions of tones of crushed rock and ore waste was simply pumped down a pipe from the mine and jettisoned into the sea, out of sight out of mind. There is little doubt the Newmont Exectutive was guilty, and if his mine was doing the same thing in Australia or the USA he would be quickly jailed for a long sentence. In Indonesian the courts are profoundly corrupt, the verdict depends who pays the most to the judges, just read Indonesian newspapers, they daily report such scandals. The exoneration of the executive means nothing more than the Appeal judges were either bought off or there was political influence on the trial outcome, another common event affecting the outcome of the Indonesia courts.
Jennifer receives at least part of her income from the payments made by to IPA by mining companies, perhaps including Newmont. Her blog is part of her profile as a public commentator for the IPA which employs her, and her support for resource extractive industries is in line with the function of the IPA, ie a paid lobby for big business against any form of public regulation that will hinder their operations. As far as Jennifer being a committed environmentalist, maybe only in her privacy of her own backyard.
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very interesting, but I don't agree with you
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