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Lapindo Blamed for Mudflow in East Java
An unpublished analysis carried out for the Indonesian police and seen by the FT points to potentially crucial errors in Lapindo’s pressure calculations.
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Confronting evidence questions cause of mud eruption disaster
The Yogyakarta earthquake was at least ten times too small to have triggered such a disaster, whilst the well that was drilled only 200 metres away from the volcano is the more likely cause.
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Volcano Reveals a Murky Indonesia
The local economy has collapsed. Even if you want to start a business, there’s nobody buying anything.
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PT Lapindo Brantas Makes Things Clear as Mud in Indonesia
Many analysts predict that the Bakrie Group will simply resort to bankruptcy rather than foot any of the multi-billion dollar clean-up and compensation costs.
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New Indonesia Calamity, A Mud Bath, Is Man-Made
Foreign companies, environmental groups and political observers are now watching closely to see whether the government will hold Lapindo.
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Mud volcano ‘on brink of collapse’
Since it began spewing noxious mud and gasses on May 29 2006, Lusi has blanketed an area of around 7 cubic kilometres, covering 10,426 houses, 35 schools, 65 mosques and one orphanage.
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Mining firm blamed for mud flooding: report
East Java police chief Herman Suryadi Sumawiredja: Experts believe there is a link between the mud flow and the activities of the well.
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Lusi sinking into its own caldera
The world’s fastest-growing mud volcano is collapsing by up to three metres overnight, suggests new research.
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Volcano of mud makes 50,000 homeless
The government only needs to have the political will and the political courage to push the company to pay compensation.
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Lusi: not man-made after all?
Neither of these claims is supported by hard data in the paper, so where the two papers disagree on vital and important facts, it is rather difficult to assess who is right.
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Happy Birthday, Lusi (the Drilling Totally Did It)
We don’t say that PT Lapindo Brantas should be blamed for the eruption. The drilling practices used were somehow deficient.
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The human face of Indonesia’s mud volcano disaster
Santos won’t say whether it too is looking to sell its stake, but did say it remains “very concerned” about the ongoing challenges posed by the disaster, and the impact on the local community and economy.
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Santos urges Indonesian court to dismiss “mud volcano” civil case
Walhi accused those involved of breaching environmental and civil laws, and asked the judge to order the parties to pay compensation for the “great impact on the environment”.
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Java’s Lusi volcano ‘on the verge of collapse’
Research by Durham University and the Bandung Institute of Technology has found the volcano is collapsing and could subside to depths of more than 460 ft.
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Plan to build new coast with mudflow
Mr Bakrie had maintained he was not liable, the Environment Minister said, but he was paying the costs of rehousing some of those affected due to a “moral responsibility”.
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Activists criticize environmental rating
A government environmental report praising some of the country’s biggest polluters will lead to further deterioration of the environmental situation.
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A disastrous award?
Environmental NGOs, including the Mining Advocacy Network (Jatam), strongly protested last week the results of a Ministry of Environment audit on 516 companies, since this included an environmental award for PT Lapindo Brantas, allegedly responsible for an environmental disaster. Activists doubted the audit’s transparency and objectiveness. NGOs protested some audit results and awards, especially those involving companies thought to have a…
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Muddy waters in polluter’s award
What do you get for instigating a nation’s worst human-made disaster, flooding 600 hectares with toxic mud from an unsafe gas well, cutting key highways and displacing about 40,000 people? In Indonesia, you get a government award for complying with safety and environmental standards.
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US Consortium proposes to turn Lapindo Mudflow into Power Plant
The electricity generated from geothermal heat in Sidoarjo can be sold to state-owned electricity company PLN for 2-3 Euro cents per kWh and can contribute towards solving the electricity crisis in Indonesia.
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TIME “Top 10” Natural Disasters
#5. Indonesian Mud Volcano It wasn’t exactly an act of God the blame should go to a poorly run natural gas drilling project but the out-of-control mud flows near the Indonesian city of Surabaya certainly resembled something out of a disaster movie. The problem started in late May, when hot mud broke into…