It also has a link to Austin, TX. The American company involved in the Grasberg mine is Freeport-McMoRan. In the 1980s-90s it also attempted to develop housing along the Barton Creek watershed. This lead to the ordinance and political group called "Save Our Springs." At the time many people tied the environmental degradation of Papua New Guinea with what the company planned for Austin.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/the-battle-for-barton-s...