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ABG President Slams Controversial Report by Australia NGO

On 27 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Emtv

Autonomous Bougainville Government President John Momis has criticised Australian NGO Jubilee on its report on Panguna landowners.

President Momis described the report has biased, defective and divisive.

He said the report was deeply flawed and that the interviews with 65 individuals and one focus group around Panguna Mine defers from the views of the 10,000 people in affected areas.

PNG government is failing people and environment, say scientists

On 24 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: ALERT

October 22nd, 2014

PNG police brutality highlights troublesome link to loggers

On 23 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Radio New Zealand

Originally aired on Thursday 16 Oct 2014

Calls continue for Papua New Guinea police working for logging companies to be removed amid unresolved claims of police brutality against landowner communities opposed to logging.

Allegations by some East New Britain landowners that they were intimidated and assaulted among other abuses by police attached to a logging company remain unresolved.

PNG People Poorer despite big mines: NRI

On 22 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Picture: PNG LNG Mine

PNG people are poorer but is that despite the big mines - or because of the big mines?

Perhaps a Sovereign Wealth Fund is NOT the answer.

John Momis: A Mined Mind

On 22 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Mine Watch

He can not listen to his people's cries, even when they gave him and the Asian puppet, O'Neill, a Farewell ceremony meant for dead people instead of a welcome ceremony at the Panguna MINED and DESTROYED site.

GARY'S THOUGHTS AS A VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE MOTION LOOMS

On 21 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: MY Land, My Country Blog

As a vote of no confidence against Oro Governor, Gary Juffa, looms, he writes about the successes and challenges he faces against the old guard.

NZ: Plenty of scientific concerns about seabed mining application

On 16 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Chatham Rise seabed hearing: the absence of evidence

Source: Scoop NZ

The phosphate on the seabed, 450m down on the Chatham Rise, has a particular quality that other phosphate doesn’t have: uranium.

The toxicity of this uranium was the focus of yesterday’s seabed mining hearing, and the evidence from a range of experts hasn’t filled us with confidence.

Court warns landowners against land hijacking

On 15 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The National

A NATIONAL court judge has cautioned landowners to be wary of land hijacking.

Stephen Oli highlighted this during a court user forum in Kokopo last Friday.

He said with due respect, the Special Agriculture Business Leases (SABL) were a hotspot for corruption.

Uncertain Futures: What does Sime Darby takeover of NBPOL mean for the people of New Britain?

On 13 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Exposed

Uncertain Futures is the title of a 2012 report on the impacts of Sime Darby on communities in Liberia. The report paints a chilling and tragic picture of human rights violations.

Sime Darby is the Malaysian company now poised to take control of NBPOL and its plantations in Papua New Guinea.

NBPOL suitor has record of land grabbing and human rights violations in Liberia

On 10 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Sime Darby is infamous for illegal land clearing, violent clashes with local communities, illegal forest fires and for threatening the last orangutan habitats.

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