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BHP Borneo coal plans may put ecosystem, orangutans at risk

MINING.com Editor | November 07, 2013 | 7:32 am Energy Asia Coal 

Conservationists are concerned that BHP's Indomet project plans might damage an area of central Borneo inhabited by endangered orangutans. The project will result in mass deforestation of the Barito basin in the Kalimantan province, according to international environmental organization, Friends...

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