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Voices of Bougainville: Nikana Kangsi, Nikana Dong Damana (Our Land, Our Future)

On 16 Sep, 2014 By rait man

Jubilee Australia released its report ‘Voices of Bougainville: Nikana Kangsi, Nikana Dong Damana (Our Land, Our Future)’ at a gathering of academics, representatives of non-government organisations and community members at the UNSW Australian Centre for Human Rights on Friday, September 12, 2014.

Download the report from the Jubilee Australia website

Landowner: New trend evolving

On 08 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Melissa Martin, Post Courier

SPECIAL agriculture businesses lease (SABL) titles found to be defective by a Commission of Inquiry are mutating into a new scam.

According to landowners, there are early signs that a new trend of mutation is starting to take shape on defective SABLs, and as such they (landowners) have alerted the public to prevent this trend from taking root.

Rio Tinto's Coup - The Bougainville Mining (Transitional Arrangements) Bill 2014

On 08 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Rio Tinto may have lost the battle in 1990 but, if the Bougainville Mining Bill is passed, they have won the war.

The key section announcing the coup is buried right at the end of the Bill. If passed, Rio Tinto's special mining lease will be converted into an exploration licence, which can then in turn be re-converted into a mining lease under the law.

Why is this a coup? Surely this is a loss for Rio Tinto? Well ...

Group Storms Mine

On 07 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The National

RAMU NiCo’s Kurumbukari mine in Madang has been forced to close after a group of villagers damaged properties worth millions of kina on Monday.

Five Chinese employees were injured after the armed villagers stormed into the office area of the KBK mining site of Ramu NiCo, damaging equipment and facilities, according to a company source.

Acting provincial police commander Senior Inspector Ben Neneo has sent a police team, including officers from the Criminal Investigation Unit, to Ramu to investigate. The incident happened around 8.30am.

NZ EPA rejects Seabed Mining projects

On 30 Jun, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Coastal Cliffs on Patea Beach

Papua New Guinea is in the same boat as the New Zealanders and the people's fight to conserve their native resources by which the oceans of water protects has come to success after which the Environmental Protection Authority proved that there is uncertainty in the environmental damage that will be caused by this experiment. Papua New Guinea governing bodies can feed off a lesson or two from its neighbouring pacific island country.

Mining Minister ignoring the world on experimental seabed mining

On 24 Jun, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The Loggers Time

New YouTube animation highlights experimental seabed mining risks for the Pacific region

On 06 Nov, 2013 By Tim

ACT NOW!, Bismarck Ramu Group, Pacific Network on Globilization

A new animated cartoon released on YouTube highlights the high risks of experimental seabed mining for the Pacific region.

View the video at www.actnowpng.org or on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPaFKw_oLQ

PMIZ provokes more land problems

On 30 Aug, 2013 By Tim

Last Thursday two groups of people came head to head over who really owns the land area on which the former Milinat plantation was on.

Mabonob villagers clashed with some settlers brought on the land by claimant Sali Tagau.

The villagers carried placards calling for the arrest of Mr Tagau and blaming the PMIZ for provoking this fight. The Mabonob villagers said, “this land ownership title is being disputed in court and several restraining orders have been issued to Mr Tagau but he continues to ignore these orders.”

“He must be arrested,” they said.

Mining benefits fail to trickle down

On 23 Jun, 2013 By rait man

Neena Bhandari | IPS

With South-South trade on the rise and growth in emerging economies set to outstrip production in industrialised countries, the international mining sector has been quick to follow global trends.

In recent years, significant mining activity has moved from the developed to the developing world, with the latter’s share of global trade in minerals increasing from less than one-third in 2000 to nearly half in 2010.

Population growth fuels conflict in PNG

On 22 Dec, 2011 By rait man

IRIN – A Service of UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Unchecked population growth is fast proving an additional source of conflict in Papua New Guinea (PNG), a country with a history of clan violence and clashes over land, experts say.

“Without doubt, rapid population growth is adding to the risk of conflict,” Max Kep, director of the PNG’s national Office of Urbanization, told IRIN, noting that various types of conflict are fuelled by limited resources, including a shortage of land.

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