BHP Billiton Limited disclosed in its Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended June 30, 2008, certain environmental-related fines imposed against five of the Company’s businesses during the fiscal year 2008.
In November 2007, the Company’s aluminium business in…
BHP Billiton Limited is still facing litigation regarding environmental matters at Ok Tedi Mining Ltd.’s mine in Papua New Guinea.
Seven individual plaintiffs, representing the members of seven clans from the vicinity of the Ok Tedi mine, has filed the proceedings…
BHP Billiton Limited, as of June 30, 2008, has provided US$125 million for its anticipated share of the planned remediation work of groundwater contamination at a site in Arizona, based on a range reasonably foreseeable up to US$170 million, and…