“It’s the same old blues again,” sang Eric Clapton, and there might be a few Ipili and Engan people at Porgera feeling much the same with the announcement of the start-up of the “New Porgera” gold mine a few days before Christmas.While the economic benefits to the nation and the local population .
Unless longstanding problems with the Porgera mine are addressed, the announced reopening is just old wine in new bottles, say Glenn Banks and John Burton.
Sometimes writing headlines is just too easy: “The new Porgera: old wine, new bottles” would have been a simple summary of the recent news that, following the passing of new legislation by the Papua New Guinea parliament, the Porgera gold mine reopened on 22 December 2023, and will pour its first.
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