BIZ BUZ
October 3, 2006
Business Buzz
STILL no end to what must be the biggest environmental disaster in Indonesia: the hot, smelly mud out of PT Lapindo Brantas exploration site in East Java. With no dykes or dams able to contain the mud, the government is now looking at disposing the mud into the sea, enraging environmentalists even further. First the land, now the sea will be polluted?
Some 126,000 cubic meters of the mud will be channeled into the Porong River, where
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