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The Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation is a state-owned enterprise established by the Republic of Nauru in May 1999, following the passing of the Nauru Rehabilitation Corporation Act in July 1997. Its primary mission is to rehabilitate land destroyed by the phosphate industry , both before and after its independence, making them once again ...
One apparently successful development project was in 1988, whereby the Royalty Trust purchased 600 acres (2.4 km 2) of vacant, residentially zoned land near Portland, Oregon. Purchased for $16 million from Homer Williams and called Forest Heights, it was controlled by the Nauru trust until 75% of the allotments were sold, when the homeowners ...
Phosphate mining, Nauru, 1919. The effects of phosphate mining in Nauru have had significant negative impacts on the island's environment and economy. [1] One of the most prominent effects of the phosphate mining in Nauru is the extensive environmental degradation that has occurred as a result of the extraction of phosphates. [2]
These pillars of rock are what remains after the island's history of phosphate mining which decimated the landscape. [1] Today the area is the focal point of the Government of Nauru 's Higher Ground Initiative which would see the island's land restored so that the country's population can move inland to escape the effects of climate change and ...
The tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru has notified a U.N. body of plans to start deep-sea mining, giving the International Seabed Authority (ISA) two years to complete long-running talks on ...
Phosphate mining, Nauru, 1919. The effects of phosphate mining in Nauru have had significant negative impacts on the island's environment and economy. [158] One of the most prominent effects of the phosphate mining in Nauru is the extensive environmental degradation that has occurred as a result of the extraction of phosphates. [159]
Following the Nauru Agreement of 2 July 1919 the interests of the PPC in the phosphate deposits in Nauru and Ocean Island were acquired by the governments of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, which carried out mining under the direction of the Board of Commissioners, which represented the three governments. [13] [12]
BEIJING (Reuters) -A reporter from Xinhua landed in Nauru on Wednesday, the first from China's official news agency to step foot on the remote Pacific Islands nation after it ditched Taiwan for ...