Indonesia’s ore-smelting ambitions augur rain of poison in Sulawesi

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By <a class="author-link"…Jan 19, 2016, 4:24 pm58 pts
Helicopter over a forest supplanted by a mature oil palm plantation and it will look verdant from the sky. The ocean surface over a bombed-out reef still glimmers aquamarine. But mine a peninsula, and the land turns from lush green to a muddy yellow that bleeds into the surrounding waters in long curlicues.…

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