Customary Land Grab

Seabed Mining hyped, but serious concerns remain

On 14 Mar, 2016 By ACTNOW

Source: PNG Today

A cost-benefit analysis released by the Secretariat of Pacific Communities (SPC) and the European Union on potential deep sea mining (DSM) projects in three Pacific countries found that the projects can be viable.

But other research suggests there remain serious concerns about the new, untested DSM industry.

PNG Forest Minister urged to allow audit

On 10 Mar, 2016 By ACTNOW

Source: Radio NZ

The Papua New Guinea Forest Minister has been urged by a transparency and environmental NGO to allow an audit of financial reporting by the logging industry.

Despite a new report by the Oakland Institute tracking massive tax evasion by foreign companies involved in PNG forestry, the minister Douglas Torumiesa has defended the loggers.

Mr Tomuriesa attacked the report's findings as being inaccurate because the companies do pay log export taxes.

More hopeless excuses from the government on SABL

On 26 Feb, 2016 By ACTNOW

Source: PNG Exposed Blog

We have been waiting two-and-a-half years for the government to cancel the unlawful SABL leases and stop the illegal logging, but they are still making excuses and doing nothing!

Latest to try and explain away the delays is Logging Minister, Douglas Tomuriesa [see story below]. He says 30 months is not a long time to take to implement the findings of the Commission of Inquiry and the government has not been dragging its heels!

Land Issue for parliament

On 13 May, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Loop

Parliament sits at 10:00 am today starting off the second week of sessions for the three weeks assigned in the May Sitting, and one important thing is the Land Grabbing Issue that hit the PNG and International news headlines in recent weeks.

Network Support Calls to stop land grabs

On 08 May, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The National

The Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG) is backing non-government organisations in demanding for the World Bank to end its support for land and resources grabbing in Pacific communities, under the pretext of making customary land more productive.

PANG said the terrible outcomes of such business environments include the illegal land grab taking place in the country, with over five million hectares of customary land taken from local people without their consent for commercial use.

Will SABL go ?

On 26 Sep, 2013 By Effrey

By Nalau Bingeding

I, just like everyone else who has an interest in Special Purpose Agriculture Business Leases (SABLs), want to see SABLs outlawed in this country. However, when it comes to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on SABLs, I do not have any high expectations about the outcome of that inquiry.

This is simply because the SABL concept is well embedded in several legislations and involves some highly technical issues, thus the removal of SABLs may not be that easy as some people would like to think.

Summary of the Final SABL Report as presented by Chief Commissioner, John Numapo

On 23 Sep, 2013 By Effrey

By Joey Tau, Freelance Journalist, Pacific Media

The following is a brief sourced from the executive summary and recommendations of the report dated 24th June 2013.

Summary of the Final SABL Report as presented by Commissioner, Nicholas Mirou

On 23 Sep, 2013 By Effrey

By Joey Tau, Freelance Journalist, Pacific Media

The following brief was sourced from the executive summary and recommendations of the final report dated 23rd June 2013.

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