ABATAI, Rennell Island (CU)_Over the past few years there has been growing concern regarding the cost of mining operations across the globe and there is perhaps nowhere in the Pacific where the damage of extractive industries are as heartbreakingly clear as Rennell Island. Located at the southern tip of Solomon Islands, in the vast South Pacific, the island is home to a few thousand people, who have been suffering the devastating consequences of bauxite mining.
For many years now, Bintan Mining Solomon Islands Ltd (BMSI), sub-leased by the Asia Pacific Investment Development (APID) Company, and China’s World Link Mining have been…
