OK Tedi environmental disaster on Fly River
T he Fly is 1,050 kilometers (650 mi) long, the second longest river in Papua New Guinea, after the Sepik. The Fly is the largest river in Oceania, the largest river in the world without a single dam in its catchment area and ranks globally as the 25th largest river in the world by flow . It originates in the Victor Emanuel Range branch of the Star Mountains and flows through the southwestern lowlands before emptying into the Gulf of Papua in a large plain. The Ok Tedi environmental disaster caused severe environmental damage along 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) of the Ok Tedi and Fly rivers in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea between 1984 and 2013 The lives of 60,000 people have been disrupted. One of the worst man-made environmental disasters, it is the result of dumping about two billion tons of untreated mining waste into Ok Tedi ...
