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Young leaders rights to demonstrate must be respected

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Help demand justice for communities robbed in huge illegal land grab

Your help is needed now for communities across Papua New Guinea who are still waiting for justice in one of our planets largest illegal land grabs.

Take action: www.actnowpng.org/content/demand-justice-communities-robbed-huge-illegal-land-grab

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SABLs fueling log exports

One-third of PNG log exports - I million cubic metres - coming from disputed and controversial SABL areas...

Land owners not consulted on PNG log exports

ABC Radio Australia

Up to one third of Papua New Guinea's log exports may have been made without the consent from land owners.

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Mining benefits fail to trickle down

Neena Bhandari | IPS

With South-South trade on the rise and growth in emerging economies set to outstrip production in industrialised countries, the international mining sector has been quick to follow global trends.

In recent years, significant mining activity has moved from the developed to the developing world, with the latter’s share of global trade in minerals increasing from less than one-third in 2000 to nearly half in 2010.

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Logging without free prior informed consent from local people

Sepu people question logging activity in their area

Nathan Matbob

The people of the Sepu area along the Ramu River in the Usino-Bundi District of Madang held a meeting with representatives from logging company Madang Timbers and the PNG Forest Authority at the village more than a week ago. Representatives from the Forest Authority however, did not attend on the reason that their forester rep was not available at that time.

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SOPAC mandate claims are disingenuous

Minister’s speech exposes a fundamental flaw in the SOPAC Deepsea Mining Project: It does not have the mandate of the peoples of the Pacific

Pacific Network on Globilization

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PM's Dept release draft ICAC laws for public consultation

The Anti-Corruption Sectretariat in the Prime Minister's Department has released for public consultation a number of documents on the proposed Independent Commission Against Corruption.

The documents (which can be downloaded below) are:

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NGOs urge PNG govt to follow Vanuatu lead on experimental seabed mining

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Eco-Forestry Forum calls for SABL CoI report to be tabled

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PMIZ plans flawed by lack of power and water supplies

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.

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