Prosecutor files pollution charges against Newmont
Monday, July 11 2005 - 09:04 AM WIB
State prosecutors filed pollution charges against a local unit of U.S.-based Newmont Mining Corp. and its American chief executive on Monday.
"It has been submitted to the court," North Sulawesi prosecutor Robert Ilat told Reuters.
Newmont has denied it caused the pollution blamed for sickness among villagers near a gold mine on Sulawesi island's Buyat Bay, about 2,200 km (1,400 miles) northeast of Jakarta.
The trial would be held in Manado in North Sulawesi. (*)