The National Court has restrained Prime Minister Peter O’Neill (pictured on right) from tabling in Parliament a Commission of Inquiry report on the payment of legal fees by State agencies to lawyers and law firms.
“The government’s building our country by destroying it?” That’s the question posed by Sambun, an elderly man in the middle of the Wewak town market, which heated up a discussion that broke out between customers and the venders about what type of development, mines are to our country. (Picture below-right: Freda river courtesy of mining.com)
Picture: Sadly a deformed infant and mother in the Middle Fly area of Western province. BHP Billiton owned and operated the Ok Tedi mine which directly discharged toxic mine waste into the Fly River system
Source: Radio New Zealand
Landowners in the South Fly region of Papua New Guinea's Western province are unsatisfied with the compensation given for environmental devastation caused by the Ok Tedi mine.
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).
The Fly River in Western “is gone” as a result of the massive damage to the environment caused by mining over the years, according to Environment and Conservation Minister John Pundari.
The National Court has restrained Prime Minister Peter O’Neill (pictured on right) from tabling in Parliament a Commission of Inquiry report on the payment of legal fees by State agencies to lawyers and law firms.
