Revealed: Australian miner used arbitration threat to upend Indonesian environmental law

Mongabay
Sep 15, 2016, 7:00 pm120 pts
A BuzzFeed News investigation has shined new light on the extent to which a secretive international legal system has enabled global mining companies to muscle their way into Indonesia’s last remaining rainforests. A former Newcrest Mining executive told BuzzFeed News he had threatened to use the system, known…

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