The Panguna mine is the weeping environmental sore of destructive resource extraction in the Pacific, and yet, with the recent release of a major assessment on the mine legacy impact, there is now reason to hope that there will be some restitution for affected communities on Boug

Dr Volker Boege, Research Fellow at the University of Queensland writes about the likelihood of whether the Autonomous Bougainville Government will reopen the Panguna copper mine in central Bougainville.

Dr Volker Boege, Research Fellow at the University of Queensland blogs about Rio Tinto's refusal to take responsibility at its recent AGM for the disastrous effects of the Panguna mine operations.