100712PANGUNA TO OPEN
By Aloysius Laukai
The three stakeholders in the Panguna Mine issue last week agreed to work together towards consensus on re-opening the mine closed since 1989.
This was revealed by ABG President Chief JOHN MOMIS in Buka today.
He said that last week’s meeting agreed that if the mine does re-open it must be primarily for the benefit of all Bougainvilleans.
Also it must be entirely under a new mining agreement that must ensure that the world’s best practices are followed by whoever is selected as the new operator.
President Chief JOHN MOMIS said that BCL and the Papua New Guinea Government have already agreed that any Panguna negotiations must involve the ABG and the landowners.
He said that last week’s meeting also agreed that negotiations must be based on principles of fairness, integrity and transparency.
Chief JOHN MOMIS also said that the landowners also agreed that because of the suffering during the Bougainville conflict all Bougainvilleans interest must be taken into account in all negotiations.
Ends
11 July 2012
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I have been missing in action for a while because I was digging the backstage mountain slopes of ENSISI in POM. I was building a house on a piece of land on the hill top range that encapsulates ENSISI valley. But this morning I took PX 110 to Madang, and sat next to a Sepik fisheries officer from the Kavieng office. He is on his was to the fisheries forum to be held this week, in Madang. He told me about the fish farming programs that his office has been promoting for some time in New Ireland province.
He talked about the success stories, how ordinary people are making money through fish farming. He also talked a lot of how fisheries can be developed in the Islands regions inlcuding Bougainville. I listened with amazement as he spoke and I only spoke to tell him that unfornunately Bougainville thinks only mining can earn them revenue.
joseph
Posted by: joseph | 23 September 2012 at 12:12 PM
As long as I live there will be no environmentally-destructive large scale mining on Bougainville, period!
Posted by: No Mining | 18 September 2012 at 01:44 PM
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Posted by: Leonard Roka | 17 September 2012 at 11:35 AM
In this link, http://www.buysellsignals.net/bcllandowners/Newsletter.do ,the section outlined as 'Major Tenets of New Deal' point 4, needs re-thinking
Posted by: Leonard Roka | 17 September 2012 at 11:32 AM