On one side is pristine East Rennell, a UNESCO world heritage site, which offers a glimpse of Rennell unspoiled. But in the last decade, West Rennell has suffered the triple assault of logging, bauxite mining, and a devastating oil spill from when a bulk carrier, hired by a mining company, ran aground on a reef.

Rennell Island, locally known as Mugaba, is the main island of two inhabited islands that make up the Rennell and Bellona Province in the nation state of Solomon Islands. Rennell Island has a land area of 660 square kilometres (250 sq mi) and is about 80 kilometres (50 mi) long and 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) wide.

Bauxite mining on Rennell Island began on the west side of the island in about 2011. Rennell Island is part of the Solomon Islands in the Pacific Ocean. [1] Bintang Delapan Group is one of the major operators of the mine, subcontracted by Asia Pacific Investment Development. [2]

2020年12月3日 · The bauxite mining operation in West Rennell has been dubbed “messed up” by the Solomon Island’s highest mining official. Ministry of Mines Director Nicholas Biliki told SIBC News that the process of land acquisition and the eventual granting of the mining lease to Asia Pacific Investment Development Ltd (APID) was done by the previous ...

2024年9月9日 · The West Rennell Land and Resource Owners Association (WRL&ROA) has raised serious concerns over Nickel Enterprise SI Ltd (NESI) and its recent investment announcements for Rennell. In an article published by the Solomon Star on Wednesday, August 4th, NESI claimed to have secured new backing from Singapore and flew workers to …

2024年6月13日 · Furthermore, Penrose Palmer, a Land Acquisition Officer who falsified documents for land acquired for mining on Rennell Island in 2015 was identified as the root cause of the West Rennell “Mess.” He was found guilty of office corruption and only fined $600 (US$72).

2021年6月5日 · On one side is pristine East Rennell, a Unesco world heritage site, which offers a glimpse of Rennell unspoiled. But in the last decade, West Rennell has suffered the triple assault of logging, bauxite mining, and a devastating oil spill...

The Landowners of ward 3, 4, 5 and 6 of west Rennell, Renbel Province, have been misled into providing their signatures for an act not altogether explained to them and so have denied signing any surface access agreement with APID for fulfilling the process of obtaining Prospecting License and a mining lease.

2023年2月22日 · According to a summary of a royalty payments report into mining on West Rennell Island from the Central Bank of Solomon Islands, seen by the Guardian, the Asia Pacific Investment Development (APID) company and its subcontractor Bintan Mining Solomon Islands Ltd (BMSI) have paid royalties for only 67 of the 100 shipments of bauxite ore exported ...

2020年11月30日 · The bauxite mining operation in West Rennell has been dubbed “messed up” by the Solomon Island's highest mining official. Ministry of Mines Director Nicholas Biliki told SIBC News that the process of land acquisition and the eventual granting of the mining lease to Asia Pacific Investment Development Ltd (APID) was done by the previous ...