Did an Australian linked mining firm trigger a natural disaster? | 60 Minutes Australia
17,110Subscribe here: http://9Soci.al/chmP50wA97J Full Episodes: https://9now.app.link/uNP4qBkmN6 | Unnatural Disaster (2007)
At first, we thought this can't be true, it's like some sort of pre-historic disaster movie. But it's real all right. A gigantic volcano of steaming hot mud as far as the eye can see. It's already swamped a dozen villages on the Indonesian island of Java - and we mean swamped. Houses, factories, mosques, everything just swallowed by this relentless tide. Forty thousand people have been left homeless, without jobs, without hope. And the really infuriating thing is, geologists are 99 per cent certain it's not a natural disaster. It's man-made. And the prime suspect is a big mining company with strong Australian connections.
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