The landslide occurred in a quarry that had been used by contractors working for Esso Highlands, on a natural gas pipeline.\u00a0 Despite the fact that the landslide originated at the quarry, and indeed destroyed it, ExxonMobil have repeatedly denied that they two are linked.\u00a0 I have always found this difficult to understand.<\/p>\n In the last two weeks a new documentary has been released that investigates the Tumbi Quarry landslide<\/a>, which is a companion piece to an article in the Nation magazine<\/a>.\u00a0 Both are excellent pieces, spelling out the injustice that has been done to the local residents and the lack of a proper, open investigation of the landslide.\u00a0 An interesting aspect is featured in a companion piece on the Radio Australia website<\/a>.\u00a0 This highlights an interview that Ian Shearn did with\u00a0Gerson Yakasa an engineer working with ExxonMobil sub-contractor MCJV.\u00a0 This is the key part of the interview:<\/p>\n YAKASA: I talk to the director and I sent an email to everybody else that the operations in the quarry were risky and the quarry should be you know shut immediately<\/p>\n SHEARN: Did you say that in the email?<\/p>\n YAKASA: Yes, I thought the quarry would collapse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Radio Australia piece then notes that “Mr Yakasa said he saw numerous large cracks in the face of the quarry and clear evidence of slope instability.”<\/p>\n This case continues to bemuse me.\u00a0 ExxonMobil continues to maintain that the landslide was not linked to the quarry, but with the lack of a proper investigation that is impossible to know.\u00a0 Two independent sources have told me that ExxonMobil commissioned external consultants, including at least one renowned landslide expert, to investigate the landslide (I should note that I have no way to know for certain whether this is the case).\u00a0 But if so, and if it found that the quarry was not to blame, why has it not been released?\u00a0 I find that quite surprising.<\/p>\n There is still a need for a proper independent investigation of the landslide.\u00a0 That it has not been undertaken is deeply unjust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A new article and accompanying video have been released highlighting the injustice of the 2012 Tumbi Quarry landslide in Papua New Guinea <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":9666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[469,959,313,605],"class_list":["post-9665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-video","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-papua-new-guinea","tag-tumbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Tumbi](\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2014\/05\/12_03-Tumbi-postlandslide-1.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nA new documentary about Tumbi Quarry<\/h5>\n