Pacific Marine Industrial Zone

Locally shot film on tuna industry gets international award

On 08 Apr, 2014 By rait man

By Joey Tau on PNG Edge

Canning Paradise was awarded the "Best in Festival" award from the Canadian Labour International Film Festival (CLiFF).

Canning Paradise is a feature-length documentary about one of the world's most prized resources, and those who pay for it.

Decades of overfishing by the global tuna industry have now pushed the final frontiers to the waters of PNG.

PMIZ on ice

On 11 Nov, 2013 By Tim

Midweek Chronicle

What are the real costs of PMIZ?

On 03 Sep, 2013 By rait man

Who should be our maritime caretakers?

Nancy Sullivan | Nineteen Years and Counting

This is a photo from yesterday sent to me by Racheal Shisei of a young whale caught in RD Tuna netting and obviously left to die offshore in Madang.

PMIZ provokes more land problems

On 30 Aug, 2013 By Tim

Last Thursday two groups of people came head to head over who really owns the land area on which the former Milinat plantation was on.

Mabonob villagers clashed with some settlers brought on the land by claimant Sali Tagau.

The villagers carried placards calling for the arrest of Mr Tagau and blaming the PMIZ for provoking this fight. The Mabonob villagers said, “this land ownership title is being disputed in court and several restraining orders have been issued to Mr Tagau but he continues to ignore these orders.”

“He must be arrested,” they said.

PMIZ plans flawed by lack of power and water supplies

On 04 Jun, 2013 By rait man

Grandeous plans for the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone in Madang, which is meant to house 10 new tuna processing factories, are fatally flawed as the designs do not include a power plant or water supplies.

This means that although the government is saying the project can now go ahead (see story below) in order to appease the Chinese, the PMIZ is in fact dead in the water.

Courts put PMIZ on hold indefinitely

On 22 Oct, 2012 By rait man

By Andrew Pascoe

The state’s controversial Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ) project – a USD$235 million proposal to develop a free trade industrial zone in Madang – is officially on hold.

Madang Court today ordered all progress on the PMIZ project to cease until the court makes a decision on whether the proposed development has sufficient legal grounds to proceed.

Ex-Minister still pushing PMIZ

On 19 Jan, 2012 By rait man

Timely call for audit of the PMIZ project

On 28 Sep, 2011 By rait man

Concerned Officer

The Secretary for Commerce and Industry, Steven Mera, should be commended for putting his reputation on the line to call for a full financial audit of the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone project from 2008 to 2011. 

This period effectively covers the administration of former secretary Anton Kulit and acting secretary John Andrias.  We know very well that this project was politically hijacked by a former minister.

Call for OC to probe PMIZ companies

On 28 Sep, 2011 By rait man

By PMIZ Watcher

Landowners in Madang are fighting over the crumbs rather than worrying about their futures once their land is gone, their environment polluted and thousands of low paid jobs bring myriad social problems....

New deal to lift PMIZ project

On 26 Sep, 2011 By rait man

By PMIZ Watcher

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