Mining company cleared in pollution
Published: Wed, Apr. 25, 2007 12:00AM
Modified Wed, Apr. 25, 2007 02:24AM
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closeAn Indonesian court acquitted Newmont Mining and one of its senior executives of criminal charges of polluting a bay with toxic waste from a now-defunct gold mine.
Ending a trial that lasted 21 months and pitted an emboldened national environmental lobby against the giant U.S. mining company, judges found that there was no evidence to support criminal charges that Newmont polluted Buyat Bay in northern Sulawesi with toxins including arsenic and mercury.
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