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'Orangutans' scale wall, save forest Unilever supports rainforest destruction moratorium	Glenn Hurowitz	07 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: environmental movement, Greenpeace, habitat protection, Indonesia, politics, rainforests (all these topics)

Everything Old Is Newmont Again Mining giant Newmont cleared in Indonesian pollution suit, again		18 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 6:45 AM on 18 Dec 2007 An Indonesian court cleared a subsidiary of Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. of wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed against the company by an environmental group. The group, Walhi, had sought cleanup and an apology from Newmont's subsidiary for dumping mine waste from a now-closed gold mine directly into Buyat Bay, allegedly killing fish and sickening area residents with ...
Topics: business, Indonesia, litigation, mining, news, toxics (all these topics)

Humor fails Saddening video report on Indonesian palm oil plantations	JMG	05 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, deforestation, energy, Indonesia, rainforests (all these topics)

Getting married? Five trees, please Divorce costs even more for these Java couples	Katharine Wroth	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, green living, Indonesia (all these topics)

The tropical global warming solution Bali conference could end deforestation overnight	Glenn Hurowitz	03 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, air pollution, Bali 07, climate, climate change mitigation, deforestation, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Bali eve Delegates of all stripes prepare for the trip to Bali	Youth Movement	30 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Bali 07, climate, energy, Indonesia, international politics, politics (all these topics)

Palm Leader? Palm oil may be certified sustainable, some greens skeptical		26 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:22 PM on 26 Nov 2007 Hoping to quell criticism from biofuel bashers, palm-oil producers have drawn up criteria for certifying their product as sustainable. It's a nice idea, but green group Friends of the Earth has threatened to withdraw its support of the standards, saying that Malaysia and Indonesia -- which together produce nearly 85 percent of the world's palm oil -- are using the voluntary initiative as a ...
Topics: biofuels, deforestation, energy, Friends of the Earth, Indonesia, Malaysia, news (all these topics)

Once You Lop, You Just Can't Stop Food companies damaging climate through deforestation, says new report		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 9:12 AM on 08 Nov 2007 The makers of such familiar products as Pringles, KitKat, and Philadelphia cream cheese are contributing to deforestation and climate change, says a new report from Greenpeace. Companies like Unilever, Kraft, and Nestle use palm oil from Indonesia in their products. And guess what happens in Indonesia when the palm-oil peddlers come calling? Virgin forests ar ...
Topics: agriculture, business, climate, deforestation, food, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Bali burning Amazing helicopter footage of Greenpeace in the Indonesian peat bogs	Glenn Hurowitz	31 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, deforestation, grassroots activism, Greenpeace, Indonesia, politics (all these topics)

Biofuels fueling conflict The need for good research	Geoff Dabelko	07 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, biofuels, energy, Indonesia, international politics, politics (all these topics)

That's It, No More Toothpaste For Us Growing palm-oil plantations put orangutans in peril		31 May 2007	Daily Grist
That's It, No More Toothpaste For Us Growing palm-oil plantations put orangutans in peril Thank your lucky stars you evolved, because it's not a great time to be an ape. In Indonesia and Malaysia, forests are being converted lickety-split into lucrative palm-oil plantations, and orangutans that leave their rapidly diminishing habitat to sneak in for a palmy snack are often tortured or killed. As if habita ...
Topics: biofuels, deforestation, energy, Indonesia, news (all these topics)

Carbon tax: not so regressive after all? A new study with intriguing conclusions	David Roberts	18 May 2007	Gristmill

Topics: carbon tax, climate, energy, Indonesia (all these topics)

Mine Your Business Newmont Mining Co. acquitted of wrongdoing in Indonesia		25 Apr 2007	Daily Grist
Mine Your Business Newmont Mining Co. acquitted of wrongdoing in Indonesia Yesterday, an Indonesian court found Newmont Mining Co. not guilty of polluting Indonesia's Buyat Bay with toxic runoff from a now-defunct gold mine, ending a trial that had riled up eco-justice advocates for nearly two years. Judge Ridwan Damanik declared that Newmont's piping of arsenic and mercury into the bay did not pollute the wate ...
Topics: business, Indonesia, mercury, mining, news (all these topics)

Show me the money How to save the last carbon sinks	biodiversivist	11 Apr 2007	Gristmill

Topics: biofuels, Brazil, China, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, Indonesia (all these topics)

Go for Choke Deliberate forest fires cause choking haze in Southeast Asia		23 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Go for Choke Deliberate forest fires cause choking haze in Southeast Asia Southeast Asia has been suffering through hellish smog over the last few weeks thanks to Indonesian farmers and owners of timber and palm-oil plantations who have set massive fires to clear land. Slash-and-burn practices are illegal in Indonesia, but nonetheless take place every year and rarely result in punishment. This year, th ...
Topics: air pollution, Asia, deforestation, Indonesia, news (all these topics)

Well's Hells Faulty natural-gas well drowns Indonesian villages in mud and water		06 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
Well's Hells Faulty natural-gas well drowns Indonesian villages in mud and water An Indonesian natural-gas well drilled using faulty practices has become a huge human-made disaster. In May, mud began seeping through the unprotected walls of the well at a depth of about 6,000 feet; drillers plugged the well hole, but the pressure of the mud eventually broke through the earth. Geysers of mud and wa ...
Topics: energy, Indonesia, mining and drilling, natural gas, news (all these topics)

A Beautiful Find Scientists discover 52 new marine species near Indonesia		18 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
A Beautiful Find Scientists discover 52 new marine species near Indonesia Eight new species of shrimp, 20 new species of coral, and 24 new species of fish, including two types of sharks, have been discovered off the coast of Indonesia. And these aren't your grandmother's marine species: Male wrasse fish get sexy for their harems by flashing bright yellow, blue, and purple; bottom-dwelling epaulette sharks mostly get around by ...
Topics: Indonesia, marine life, news (all these topics)

Papua Goes After the Weasel Indonesia to Freeport: Clean up mining operations or we'll sue		24 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Papua Goes After the Weasel Indonesia to Freeport: Clean up mining operations or we'll sue Indonesia has warned New Orleans-based mining giant Freeport-McMoRan that it will sue if the company doesn't clean up its gold and copper mining operation in Papua -- ideally in the next two to three years. Politicians and eco-advocates have charged Freeport with polluting streams and river ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Freeport Your Mine, and Unrest Will Follow Mining companies dig up trouble in Indonesia		21 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Freeport Your Mine, and Unrest Will Follow Mining companies dig up trouble in Indonesia Two U.S.-based mining companies are digging up trouble in Indonesia. A protest last week demanding closure of a Freeport-McMoRan gold and copper mine in the Papua province led to the deaths of at least three police officers and one soldier, then to the military seizing control of the provincia ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling, news (all these topics)

Eden Come, Eden Go Climate change threatens newly discovered tropical paradise		10 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
Eden Come, Eden Go Climate change threatens newly discovered tropical paradise One short month ago, the world thrilled to the news that researchers had discovered an untouched jungle in the Foja Mountains of New Guinea in Indonesia, full of unknown or rare plants and critters. Now -- you saw this coming, right? -- a U.S. climate scientist has warned that global warming may wipe out many of the forest's species before ...
Topics: climate, Indonesia, news, rainforests (all these topics)

We Knew They Were Price Gouging, But This Is Ridiculous Lawsuit against Exxon over torture in Indonesia can proceed, judge says		09 Mar 2006	Daily Grist
We Knew They Were Price Gouging, But This Is Ridiculous Lawsuit against Exxon over torture in Indonesia can proceed, judge says A U.S. federal judge declared last week that a lawsuit brought against ExxonMobil on behalf of Indonesian villagers can proceed. In 2001, the D.C.-based International Labor Rights Fund sued the company in a U.S. court on behalf of 11 Indonesians from Aceh province, claiming t ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, news (all these topics)

APRIL, Come Around She Will Loggers and environmentalists strike deal in Indonesia		24 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
APRIL, Come Around She Will Loggers and environmentalists strike deal in Indonesia Maybe we can all just get along. A landmark deal between a logging company and an environmental group could double the size of a designated national park in the Tesso Nilo rainforest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the site of years of conflict between conservationists and timber int ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, logging, news, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Brave Newmont World Newmont Mining to pay Indonesia $30 million to settle pollution suit		17 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Brave Newmont World Newmont Mining to pay Indonesia $30 million to settle pollution suit Colorado-based Newmont Mining Corp. has agreed to pay $30 million to the government of Indonesia to settle a long-running pollution lawsuit, but the parties have agreed to disagree about the pesky question of whether, um, any illegal pollution occurred. Indonesia's civil ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling, news, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Paradise Found Researchers discover treasure trove of new tropical species in Indonesia		08 Feb 2006	Daily Grist
Paradise Found Researchers discover treasure trove of new tropical species in Indonesia Just when we thought we'd colonized it all: Scientists have discovered a jungle in New Guinea's Foja mountains that is home to hundreds of rare and dozens of previously unknown species of flora and fauna. Researchers were helicoptered into the Rhode Island-sized area and spent a month in a state of awe. Among their findings were a new species ...
Topics: Indonesia, news, wildlife (all these topics)

All That's Gold Does Not Glitter Indonesian judge tosses out pollution suit against mining giant Newmont		18 Nov 2005	Daily Grist
All That's Gold Does Not Glitter Indonesian judge tosses out pollution suit against mining giant Newmont This week, an Indonesian judge threw out a $133 million civil suit against Colorado-based Newmont Mining Corp., the world's largest gold miner. Indonesia Environment Minister Rachmat Witular filed the lawsuit in April, charging that a now-closed Newmont gold operation ...
Topics: commercial and industry organizations, Indonesia, mining and drilling, news, toxics (all these topics)

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