Google Maps shows a satellite image of the tailings plume (www.tinylink.com/?U2nk65prt2), which appears as a violet north-south scar in the middle of the page. Still, Ricchiuti thinks that demand surely will climb. From the outset of PT Freeport Indonesia's operations, the Government has looked to the Company to provide logistical and infrastructure support, a prudent response by our Company to protect its workforce and property.". The company payroll also includes Gabrielle McDonald, a lawyer who now works as an arbitrator on the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal in the Hague. Freeport at Grasberg: 'Devastated the river system', Austin and Others Convince TCEQ to Change Graywater Reuse Rules, Controversial Pipeline to Cross the Hill Country. He believes McMoRan’s discovery could be a game-changer. The lead developer, Jim Bob Moffett, came straight from central casting. For decades, producers working in the Gulf of Mexico have been moving farther and farther offshore in search of oil and gas pockets large enough to make their quest worthwhile. Support the Chronicle. But that's not likely to be enough to adequately remediate the damage caused by the tailings, which have destroyed the rivers below the mine (see photos). The murders in the region are part of the decades-long repression of the native West Papuans by the Indonesian military and its special forces unit, KOPASSUS. But even a gradual pick-up in shallow-water activity could have a positive effect on some of the oil service companies that operate in south Louisiana. For his part, Moffett told one news outlet that the environmental effect of the mine was "the equivalent of me pissing in the Arafura Sea.". Bringing oil or gas in from a well 100 miles or more offshore involves huge transportation costs and generally requires building an expensive pipeline. 03/01/2010. James Robert Moffett atau lebih dikenal sebagai Jim Bob Moffet adalah Chairman sekaligus Co-Founder Freeport-McMoRan, Inc., salah satu perusahaan pertambangan terbesar di dunia. He added that Freeport is among the "biggest polluters worldwide by volume of waste and by area of land contaminated.". Better still for profits, over the past 12 months the company's production costs have fallen by 75%, to just 11 cents per pound – the lowest in the copper mining industry – suggesting a corporate method to the mining madness at Grasberg. Most oil companies already have major investments under way elsewhere, and they can’t – and won’t – sprint back to the Gulf. Among Stratus' current projects is the plan for Advanced Micro Devices to build facilities for some 2,000 employees on Stratus' Lantana site, along the Southwest Parkway, a project opposed by the Save Our Springs Alliance among other environmental and community organizations. Jim Bob Moffett - Sport: Football (1959-60) Position: Tackle Inducted: 1990 Hometown: Houston, Texas • Member of 1959 SWC championship team • Received Thanks to its close relationship with mining tycoon Jim Bob Moffett, the University of Texas now has a building on the Forty Acres named after a divorced couple: the Louise and James Robert Moffett Molecular Biology Building. (Another American, Leon Burgon, and an Indonesian, Bambang Riwanto, were also killed with Spier.) Mote says, "All West Papuans want accountability from Freeport about these payments [to the military]. "Between May 2001 and March 2003, a series of payments totalling US$247,705 appear to have been made by Freeport Indonesia to an Indonesian general named Mahidin Simbolon," says the report (www.globalwitness.org).