environmental damage

Groups warn of 'social unrest' and 'violence'

On 01 Oct, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Picture: Fiu Mata'ese Elisara

Source: Samoa observer

The risk runs high that benefits will flow not to local communities, but to foreign investors and national elites, with short-term monetary gains to individuals vested with unfettered powers over our lands” – Chiefs tell A.D.B.

John Momis: Not the brightest bulb

On 29 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG exposed

PNG gavman inot tingting bikpela long lukautim peles: Ken Mondiai

On 29 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Picture: Logging i bagarapim wara long Inaina Wildlife management Area long Kairuku Hiri District long Central province (PWM Photo)

Source: ABC Radio Australia

Direkta blong dispela NGO grup Partners With Melanesians, Ken Mondiai i sutim strongpela toktok long PNG gavman na ol agensi blongen i nating putim strongpela tingting long konsevesen wok long kantri.

Majority oppose mine's return

On 29 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Post Courier

OPPOSITION to the opening of the Panguna copper mine is near universal, the much criticised Jubilee Australia Research Centre study "Voices of Bougainville" has found.

NZ bid to stop Seabed Mining

On 28 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Loop

A hearing began in Wellington, New Zealand today on Chatham Rock Phosphate’s (CRP) application to mine 5000 square kms of the seabed on the Chatham Rise, in the waters off New Zealand’s east coast.

Juffa: Careless Loggers must go

On 26 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Post Courier

Illegal loggers will not be allowed to operate in PNG at the suffering of the innocent rural people, Oro Governor Gary Juffa said yesterday.

Bougainville President Momis attacks report on Panguna mine

On 24 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Post Courier

Bougainville President John Momis has attacked a report on the decommissioned Panguna mine, describing it "misleading and irresponsible".

The report by Jubilee Australia will be launched in Sydney tomorrow and tabled in the Australian parliament in Canberra on Friday by the Australian Greens Party leader Christine Milne.

Stop dumping waste into Pogera river

On 24 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The National

THE comments made by Dr Illa Temu regarding the dumping of Porgera mine waste into the Porgera and Strictland riverine systems should not go unchallenged as it contained misleading statements regarding the environment contamination downstream of the Porgera Riverine systems (Sept 12).

Miner’s seabed study ‘flawed’

On 24 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The National

THE environmental impact statement (EIS) released by seabed miner Nautilus Minerals has errors and does not consider contaminants carried directly to land by water, a scientist claims.

Dr John Luick, an oceanographer, said in his report on physical oceanographic impact assessment in July, that: “The primary risk to the local people was from shoreward movement of surface waters, which would carry contaminants with them.

Stop Experimental Seabed Mining in the Pacific

On 23 Sep, 2014 By Elizabeth1

STOP EXPERIMENTAL SEABED MINING IN THE PACIFIC MESSAGE ON THE STREETS OF LOS ANGELES

Carlos Kleeman and Arnie Saiki at the So Cal Climate Action 350 rally in Los Angeles

Source: PNG Mine Watch

Search form