{"id":5315,"date":"2012-10-08T16:58:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T16:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=5315"},"modified":"2012-10-08T16:58:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T16:58:53","slug":"call-for-an-investigation-into-the-tumbi-quarry-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/10\/08\/call-for-an-investigation-into-the-tumbi-quarry-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for an investigation into the Tumbi Quarry landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this year I featured on a number of occasions the Tumbi Quarry landslide in Papua New Guinea<\/a> of 24th January 2012 (see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>) .\u00a0 As a reminder, this was a large landslide at a quarry site in a remote area of Papua New Guinea that killed 60 people<\/a>.\u00a0 At the time there was a controversy about the cause of the landslide, which happened in a quarry that was providing aggregate for a pipeline project run by Esso Highlands (EHL).\u00a0 My line from the very start was that this landslide needs to be properly investigated, even though a National Disaster Center (NDC ) report<\/a> suggested that it was”caused by continuous heavy rainfall which weakened, or undermined, the existing topography and the limestone formation.”<\/p>\n

A new article has appeared in Pacific Scoop<\/a>, reporting that the International State Crime Initiative (ICSI) have released the result of an investigation into the landslide.\u00a0 This report, entitled The Forgotten Disaster, as available for download as a PDF<\/a>.\u00a0 They report that “To date no inquiry has been held into the cause of the landslide”.\u00a0 The report quotes my posts on this blog in a number of places, but also goes on to detail allegations of neglect of the survivors,and threats and bribery of local people.\u00a0 Thus, the report calls for a form a Commission of Inquiry into the Tumbi Quarry landslide probing the following key issues:<\/p>\n