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Harapan Baru untuk “Cash and Carry”
Korban Lapindo sudah beberapa kali berdemo mempertanyakan nasibnya, juga beberapa kali sujud syukur ketika tuntutan mereka seolah terpenuhi. Mereka sudah lelah ditipu.
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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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Bapedal Ragu atas Penelitian Walhi
SURABAYA – Badan Pengendalian Dampak Lingkungan (Bapedal) Jawa Timur meragukan penelitian Wahana Lingkungan Hidup (Walhi) yang menyatakan lumpur Lapindo di Sidoarjo mengandung Policyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAH) yang bisa menyebabkan penyakit kanker bagi manusia. “Kita harus lihat dulu, apakah penelitian itu sudah benar caranya dan apakah laboratoriumnya punya akreditasi. Di Surabaya hanya dua laboratorium yang benar-benar bisa dipercaya,” kata Dewi J.…
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Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup Menuai Protes
Lapindo dinilai tak layak lolos uji pemerintah karena bencana semburan lumpur di sumur Banjar Panji 1, Porong, Sidoarjo, Jawa Timur, diduga akibat tidak ditaatinya analisis dampak lingkungan oleh perusahaan milik keluarga Bakrie itu saat melakukan pengeboran.
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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…
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Lapindo Lost at International Arbitration
According to a prosecution report, Medco Brantas had warned Lapindo to be careful when drilling.
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Experts set for Cape Town, Vexing Mud Flow Cause Disputed
The forums purpose is to draw a line under the scientific controversy as to whether the mud volcano was caused by PT Lapindo Brantas or whether it was caused by natural forces, like an earthquake.
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Mining company ‘likely to blame’ for deadly volcano
The Lusi eruption that began more than two years ago was most likely caused by the mining company failing to properly reinforce a problematic gas well.
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Lapindo praised despite mudflow
Unbelievable. The government has hailed gas exploration company PT Lapindo Brantas and several other mining giants for complying with environmental standards set by the government.
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Scientists blame drilling for Indonesia mudflow
“We are more certain than ever that the Lusi mud volcano is an unnatural disaster and was triggered by drilling the Banjar-Panji-1 well,” Richard Davies.
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Drilling likely cause of volcano
The amount of mud produced so far was enough to fill the Perth central business district to a height of 20m, or seven storeys.
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Lapindo Nominated for 2008 Housing Rights Violator Award
Lapindo and its controlling entity Bakrie Groups have been nominated for causing the destruction of 11 villages and over 13,000 houses in Sidoarjo, destroying the homes of 50,000 people. Lapindo has been charged with a breach of Article 11 (1) of the ICESCR (International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights) which provides for the…
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Kejagung Tak Bisa Baca Black Box Lapindo
Sayangnya, isi black box pengeboran tidak sama dengan black box pesawat. Sehingga diperlukan tenaga ahli untuk memahaminya.
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Indonesian mud volcano ’caused by gas drilling’
In December 2006, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ordered Lapindo to pay 3.8 trillion rupiah ($421 million) in compensation and costs related to the mud flow.
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Five ways to trigger a natural disaster
“We suggest that a blowout in the Banjar Panji-1 well was the most likely mechanism for triggering the Lusi eruption,” writes Mark Tingay of the University of Adelaide, Australia.
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Polda Sudah Terjemahkan Box Drilling Lapindo
Komnas HAM mendesak kepada Polda Jatim untuk menggunakan box drilling untuk memperkuat bukti BAP dalam kasus Lapindo.
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Walhi Desak Bapedal Teliti Kandungan Lumpur Lapindo
Lumpur Lapindo mengandung PAH (policyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) yang melebihi ambang batas normal hingga 8 ribu kali lipatnya. Dengan kandungan tersebut potensi penyakit kanker dan tumor yang ditimbulkan cukup besar.
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Indonesia’s Ground Zero Expanding
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 – A giant stinking lake of volcanic mud has made 50,000 people homeless and swallowed up villages and factories, writes David McNeill and Andre Vltchek INDONESIANS CALL it Pompeii, or their own Ground Zero, a giant stinking lake of volcanic mud that has made 50,000 people homeless and relentlessly swallowed up villages, factories, schools, mosques…
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“Cash and Carry” atau Mati!
Warga tidak akan mundur untuk menuntut hak yang selama ini sudah diambil oleh Lapindo.