Newmont refutes team's report

Newmont refutes team's report

JAKARTA: PT Newmont Minahasa Raya refuted on Thursday the
verified report of a government-sanctioned joint team on the
alleged contamination of Buyat Bay with the company's tailings.

Newmont's vice president of operations in Indonesia Robert
Gallagher said the report, which claimed the bay was heavily
polluted, was full of misinterpretations and unrealistic
assumptions.

"The interpretations and assumptions are so biased that even
when the team found that the water and fish of the bay contained
lower than permitted levels of heavy metals, their report still
concluded that there was pollution," he argued. --JP