PNG development

Papua New Guinea set to decide on RH logging renewal

On 27 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Radio Australia

Papua New Guinea’s National Forest Board will consider a Malaysian company's bid to continue to logging virgin rainforest in order to plant palm oil.

Papua New Guinea's National Forest Board will consider a Malaysian company's bid to continue to logging virgin rainforest in order to plant palm oil.

The clear-felling around Pomio on the island of East New Britain has been hotly contested by some locals, as well as international groups like Greenpeace and Global Witness.

Foreign mining industry cries foul over PNG asserting its independence

On 26 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Dancing around the issue

Source: PNG Industry News

ABOLISHING fly-in, fly-out employment would have detrimental effects for Papua New Guinea’s mining industry, an Australian junior has warned.

While applauding the PNG government’s determination to consult industry ahead of changes to the constitution regarding resources ownership, Highlands Pacific CEO John Gooding warned of potential ramifications of changing fly-in, fly-out rules.

We do not want to be slaves in our own land

On 22 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The loggers Times

I WISH to express my views and concerns about expats being the lawmakers of PNG.

I am a mine worker and worked with most expats during my years in several underground mines for the last 10 to 20 years.

LO company gets contract

On 22 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The National

Kurumbukari mine landowners were awarded two road maintenance and a casual employment contract by Ramu NiCo on Monday.

Ramu NiCo’s president Wang Jicheng said the company would continue to deliver project memorandum of agreement (MOA) commitments and other business and employment opportunities entitled to by landowners despite the recent devastating attack on KBK mine which cost the company around US$5.06 million (K14m).

Kula starts diamond drilling in Papua New Guinea

On 21 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Pacific Mine Watch

Kula Gold Limited has announced that diamond drilling has commenced at the company’s flagship Woodlark Island gold project.

This is following the processing of the newly acquired helimag data and the identification of additional large scale hydrothermal systems.

Villagers not seeing promised benefits from Ramu mine

On 15 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Loop

Usino/Bundi MP Anthony Yagama and Madang acting Provincial Police Commander Ben Neneo met with the Bundi people on Sunday to hear their side of the story of the million kina damages caused by some of them last week.

Bundi villagers expressed their concerns that the developer, Ramu Nickel, and the Government of PNG had not implemented much of what had been agreed upon in the MOA.

Francis On a denounces Bougainville Mining Bill

On 08 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Mine Watch

Only a truly great thinker can capture historical motion with such accuracy, that their words can serve as a compass for the years ahead. Francis Ona’s historic address, written in 1989, could have been read out yesterday on the steps of Bougainville’s parliament.

We were forced to become passive observes of our own exploitation, first by the racist colonial administration and after independence by the black political leaders in whitemen’s coats.

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.

Call to focus outside mining on Lihir

On 07 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: The National

A COMMUNITY leader on Lihir Island, in New Ireland, says the leaders should now be focused on sustaining the economy after the mine closes.

Lihir Island hosts one of the world’s largest and richest mining projects in being developed by Newcrest Mining Limited.

Tug of War over Seabed Mining

On 30 Jun, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Loop

THE East New Britain provincial government has maintained that it must get 60 per cent of the equity shares of 5 per cent offloaded by the National Government in the Solwara 1 project.

This stance was reaffirmed during the Provincial Executive Council (PEC) meeting last week where Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) was invited to do a presentation on the equity shares between East New Britain and New Ireland provinces.

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