NYT: Gold Mining Giant Willfully Pumps Mercury into Indonesian Air.

[NNadir]

"AKARTA, Indonesia - An internal company report warned top executives at the Newmont Mining Corporation, the world's largest gold producer, in 2001 that the company was putting tons of toxic mercury vapors into the air in Indonesia.

The document, shown to The New York Times by a person close to Newmont, sheds new light on operations at one of the most troubled mines of a Fortune 500 company based in Denver that has drawn the rising ire of environmental groups and local communities over the impact of its operations.

The report adds fuel to charges from Indonesian officials who say they intend to prosecute the company for pollution, as well as accusations by former employees that Newmont willfully flouted environmental safeguards around the globe..."


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/22/international/asia/22newmont.html?hp&ex=1103778000&en=708da53d8cc4080f&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[acmavm]

1. Yep, that's American big business. And equal opportunity polluter

and destroyer of the environment. We'll destroy the air quality anywhere on earth all in the quest for money.