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Australian company moves to start coal industry in Papua New Guinea

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The coast of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, as viewed from a helicopter in May, 2005.(Lloyd Jones, file photo: AAP)

An Australian company says a coal industry in Papua New Guinea would provide the cheap electricity the country needs to develop.

Mayur Resources wants to mine coal, and burn it in a plant in PNG's second-biggest city, the industrial hub of Lae.

But environmental groups say the plan contradicts the country's climate change commitments and ignores the effects of global warming in the Pacific.

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Eric Tlozek, PNG Correspondent
Paul Mulder, Mayur Resources managing director
Phil Franklin, councillor of the Chamber of Commerce
Christian Lohberger, director of Nogat Coal PNG

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Papua New Guinea, Coal, Business, Economics and Finance, Utilities
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