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.

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.

Source: Post Courier

MANY school-age girls in the Panguna and Bana districts of Bougainville are not attending school, say authorities.

The girls are engaged in the lucrative gold mining business – panning the length and breadth of Panguna rivers, among the tailings from the decommissioned Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL) mine.

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.

Source: Radio New Zealand

The nine landowner associations around the Panguna mine in Papua New Guinea's Bougainville are mystified by claims local villagers oppose a return to mining.

The NGO, Jubilee Australia, spoke to 65 villagers and says many remain traumatised by the civil war, have not been properly consulted and do not back a return to large scale mining.

But the nine landowner groups say the research is wrong and Jubilee Australia should be ashamed.

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.

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).

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.

Source: Lightening

Avengu village   sits on a  mountain ridge in the highlands of the Morobe Province.   It is one of 10 that sit on a ridge  nestled amongst  the Sarawaged mountains.  

The people are  cut off from their district  headquarters   in Gagidu.  There is no road access.   The  nearest government station is in Pindiu  is a two day walk from Avengu.     The people  grow coffee  and little else in terms of cash crops.

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