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Nov 20, 2013· Mining the Heart of Borneo: coal production in Indonesia Commentary by Wendy Miles on 20 November 2013 Indonesia is the world''s top exporter of coal .

May 27, 2014· A new coal mining project may dig up more than a billion tons of coal from an area of global significance, where indigenous people have lived for generations amid the forests and rivers. Read more below to find out just how much destruction and suffering this project will cause. ... The Borneo Project c/o Earth Island Institute 2150 Allston Way ...

May 20, 2014· The Asian Development Bank has said the Heart of Borneo contains '' some of the world'' s most important equatorial forests which act as '' lungs of the earth'','' describing it as '' one of the few ...

Jul 22, 2015· But Haju could be the start of a much larger coal project for BHP in Indonesian Borneo known as IndoMet, which is believed to have potential to produce around 5 million tonnes of coal .

Mar 31, 2015· In defence of orangutans and mining, but not coal from Borneo . ... as the largest coal resource on earth, but to date it''s not particularly large even by the standards of BHP, which has half a ...

Oct 22, 2013· Press Release by Down to Earth and London Mining Network London, Tuesday 22 nd October 2013 The board of controversial mining giant BHP Billiton is set to be slammed at its AGM by an Indonesian activist over seven coal concessions collectively covering an area of more than 350,000 hectares in the relatively unspoilt rainforest centre of the island of Borneo.

"The Santan River is the lifeblood of the people of Santan Ilir, Santan Tengah and Santan Hulu villages," said student activist Taufik Inskander (26), sitting on the veranda of his parents'' home in Santan Ilir, in the Kutai Kartanegara district of East Kalimantan in Indonesian Borneo. "This ...

BHP Billiton to be slammed for Borneo coal mining at AGM, Press Release by Down to Earth and London Mining Network London, Tuesday 22 nd October 2013 The board of controversial mining giant BHP Billiton is set to be slammed at its AGM by an Indonesian activist over seven coal concessions collectively covering an area of more than 350,000 ...

Jul 16, 2014· Coal mining is bringing devastation to landscapes and livelihoods in Kalimantan, where a coalrush is in full swing. Indonesia is now the world''s largest exporter of thermal coal supplying power stations and generating electricity in India, China, Europe and many other countries around the world.

Mar 23, 2017· Downstream from a coal mine, villages in Indonesian Borneo suffer from water pollution. ... around 75 percent of the province has been assigned for coal mining. PT Indominco Mandiri, a .

A hunger for coal threatens the Heart of Borneo. Jenny Denton. The Jakarta Post. 20 May 2014. Kalimantan The project could see more than a billion tons of coal dug up from an area of global significance, where indigenous people have lived for generations amid the forests and rivers.

Nov 11, 2016· In 2011, Indonesian coal mining magnate Samin Tan and his company, Borneo Lumbung Energi Metal, stepped into this energy void. Tan hoped to acquire the rights to a potentially rich coal mine in Borneo, one of the more heavily forested of the islands comprising the 3,000milelong tropical archipelago. But he needed 1 billion to do it.

Borneo Coal Trading (BCT) was established in January 2007. BCT is a privately held coal mining and trading company, supplying steam coal to domestic and export markets. read more. OUR PRODUCT. Coal is primarily used as a solid fuel to produce electricity and heat through combustion. It varies to different specifications according to its contents.

The development of coal mines in East Kalimantan is having a huge impact on local and indigenous populations, destroying the forest and displacing communities. London banks and City financiers take the profit. Now coal mining is poised to rip through central Kalimantan, or Borneo. Just 30 years ago ...

Open pit coal mining is a far cry from the deep underground mines we associate with the industry in the UK. Bumi Resources'' mines have required the clearing of large areas of forest, with hillsides being cut open to expose layers of coal and earth.

Dec 17, 2015· Standing on a hilltop in Kerta Buena, an Indonesian village on the island of Borneo, local farmers look out over a blackened moonscape. In the 1980s the land was forested, but now it is pockmarked with craters where miners have clawed coal from the earth. On a recent November afternoon, trucks ...

practices of companies and individuals operating there. Furthermore, much of the mining in Borneo is for coal; burning coal is a significant contributor to climate change which is adding to environmental and social pressures in Borneo and around the world. Mining in Borneo has been carried out by traditional miners since the eighteenth century.

Coal mining in East Kalimantan has destroyed forests as well as contaminated food and water sources. and Read more below about how the government allows this to happen and what the citizens of the area want. Read more on The Malaysian Insider. Read more about environmental degradation in Borneo and then join... Read More >

Press Release by Down to Earth and London Mining Network. London, Tuesday 22 nd October 2013. The board of controversial mining giant BHP Billiton is set to be slammed at its AGM by an Indonesian activist over seven coal concessions collectively covering an area of more than 350,000 hectares in the relatively unspoilt rainforest centre of the island of Borneo.

Dec 04, 2013· Barges loaded with mountains of coal glide down the polluted Mahakam River on Indonesian Borneo every few minutes. Viewed from above, they form a .

Last February, at the invitation of JATAM (the Indonesian Mining Advocacy Network) and JATAM Kaltim (JATAM East Kalimantan), UK researcher ANdrew Hickman saw for himself the impacts of coal mining in and around Samarinda, East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). He came across a ''coal rush'' that is stripping bare the hills and forests, while the ...

A coalseam fire is a natural burning of an outcrop or underground coal seam. Most coalseam fires exhibit smoldering combustion, particularly underground coalseam fires, because of limited atmospheric oxygen availability. Coalseam fire instances on Earth date back several million years.

Jul 01, 2016· Mining is the first step in the dirty life cycle of coal. When coal mines move in, whole communities are forced off their land by expanding mines, coal fires, subsidence, and overused and contaminated water supplies. Mines are quick to dig up and destroy forests and soils. But once the coal is gone, the problems they leave behind, like acid mine drainage, can persist for decades.

Oct 30, 2013· The Guardian Back to home. ... Swallowed by coal: UK profits from Indonesia''s destructive mining industry ... BHP Billiton''s Borneo coal concessions will be a .
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