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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.

MP Keen to develop East Sepik Oil palm

On 23 Jul, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The National

Governor calls for debate!

On 30 Jun, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Post Courier

THE proposal to mine the sea bed area between the west coast of Namatanai in New Ireland Province and East New Britain needs more public awareness and debate, says East New Britain Governor Ereman ToBaining Jr.

Storebrand pulls out from the palm oil industry

On 26 Jan, 2014 By rait man

Storebrand, the largest private pension fund in the Nordic region, is divesting its shares in eleven of the twelve palm oil companies in which it is invested. ”A victory for the rainforest and a crystal clear signal to the palm oil industry”, declares Rainforest Foundation Norway.

Papua New Guinea Tribes Under Threat from Conflict Palm Oil

On 13 Nov, 2013 By Tim

By Laurel Sutherlin / Rainforest Action Network

The Indigenous communities of Collingwood Bay, Papua New Guinea are engaged in a high stakes battle to defend their land and culture from the threat of Conflict Palm Oil expansion and they have a quick and easy request for help right now.

Woodlark Lease Quashed

On 07 May, 2012 By Klaireh

By TODAGIA KELOLA

THE National Court has quashed a decision by the National Lands Board and the Minister for Lands in awarding a company, Vitroplant,three agriculture leases to plant palm oil on Woodlark Island. 

More violence in East New Britain SABL

On 12 Apr, 2012 By rait man

By Grace Tiden

TEN Pomio landowners were arrested by police few days ago for blocking a stream that flows through their customary land.

Video documents broken oil palm promises in Solomon Islands

On 20 Jan, 2012 By rait man

This short video documents the broken promises of oil plam company Sylvania Limited which has deserted the people of Marova leaving them with only broken promises after logging out their forests; mirroring the experiences of communities in Papua New Guinea who have suffered the loss of their forests under Special Agriculture Purpose Business Leases. You can view further episodes from this documentary here vimeo.com/album/1806605

New video shows how PNG villagers have found better alternatives to oil palm

On 17 Jan, 2012 By rait man

Sausi village in Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, is a community which resisted oil palm monoculture and has instead developed its own forms of co-finance and development. Relying on small-scale cocoa production, rice farming, fish breeding, peanut production and other cash crops, village cooperation is showing how communities can keep control of their land and use their own resources to build a better future.

An honest view of oil palm in West New Britain

On 02 Nov, 2011 By rait man With 2 Comments

Fr. Ed Meli, MSC*

It seems to me that New Britain Palm Oil Limited (NBPOL) is highly acclaimed by the World Economic Forum from purely economic point of view. I stand to be corrected but if I am not mistaken, a certain law guarding people's rights to their land and virgin forests in PNG, prohibits Oil Palm Companies to clear virgin forests to plant oil palm.

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