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Tailngs Ponds are the Biggest Environmental Disaster You've Never Heard of

On 11 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: PNG Mine Watch

Phtograph By: Jonathan Hayward, The Canadian Press

The scale is hard to imagine: gray sludge, several feet deep, gushing with the force of a fire hose through streams and forest—coating everything in its path with ashy gunk. What happened on Monday might have been one of North America’s worst environmental disasters in decades, yet the news barely made it past the Canadian border.

Landowner chairman slams new Bougainville mining law

On 11 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

source: PNG Mine Watch

This Law has taken away the Panguna SML Landowner’s right over their resources by giving easy access to Rio Tinto and its subsidiary BCL. Just have a look at Section 13 then the reverse in Sections 212, 70, 66, and 69. where our ABG Government drives the last and the final nail in our coffin.

Our President and his foreign legal expert, Mr. Tony Regan are lying all the way covering up for Rio Tinto and BCL.

Momis-Australian Economic Pact and Bougainville's Future

On 10 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

source: PNG Mine Watch

The Momis-Australian economic pact developed since 2010 was sealed through the Mining Bill when it passed through Bougainville's parliament. According to its salesman this economic strategy will bring independence, jobs, money, and happiness.

But there is not one exampleto back up their claims. On the other hand we know from Bougainville's own history, and we know from the history of ex-colonial countries from around the world - still under the hoof of foreign powers - what will emerge.

Full Bougainville mining law hoped for new year

On 09 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

source: Radio New Zealand

The president of Bougainville says he hopes to have a complete mining law for the autonomous Papua New Guinea province passed by the end of the year.

A new "transitional" law was passed last week to replace PNG mining law, which formalised the province's control of its own resources as laid out in the Bougainville Peace Agreement.

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.

Vetrans Association says new Mining Law lays foundation for another crisis

On 08 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Source: Papua New Guinea Mine Watch

The Panguna Veterans Association has presented a withering denunciation of Bougainville's proposed new Mining Law and urged the members of the House of Representative to reject it.

A Statement from Chairman Noah Doko and Vice-Chairman Joe Birunoim describes the Bill as a wolf hiding in a sheep skin and accuses the ABG of selling out their birthrights.

But the most critical and worrying part of the Association's analysis is that the new law will lay the foundations for another crisis:

Miroi calls for stand-alone Mining Policy

On 08 Aug, 2014 By Elizabeth1

Chairman of the Me'ekamui Governmet of Unity on Bougainville, Philip Miroi has stood his ground in publishing a statement that "the ABG enact into law a stand-alone Bougainville Mining Policy that makes a clean break from the past." He has furthermore stressed that the 4th draft May Bill mining policy gives mandate for BCL into Panguna and this is a "dangerous and potentially destabilizing move and is not acceptable to the Me'ekamui."

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 ...

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.

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