Blurring the lines of environmental responsibility: how corporate and public governance was circumvented in the Ok Tedi Mining Limited disaster

Authors

Judith M. Marychurch, University of WollongongFollow
Natalie P. Stoianoff, University of WollongongFollow

RIS ID

17451

Publication Details

Marychurch, J. M. & Stoianoff, N. P. (2006). Blurring the lines of environmental responsibility: how corporate and public governance was circumvented in the Ok Tedi Mining Limited disaster. 61st Annual ALTA Conference - Legal Knowledge: Learning, Communicating and Doing Lindfield, Australia: Australasian Law Teachers Association (ALTA) Secretariat.

Abstract

This paper will present the preliminary findings of a research project into the impact of legislative legitimation of environmental damage on corporate governance in multinational companies and on public governance in the nation state. The environmental devastation of the Ok Tedi mine in Papua New Guinea (PNG) will be the focus of the paper.

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Annual Australasian Law Teachers Association Conference