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

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:

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.

PM moves to recoup K15m

By JEFFREY ELAPA, The National

THE commissioners of the special agriculture business leases (SABL) have been gi­ven an ultimatum of 30 days to produce the final report or refund the money approved for the inquiry to the State.

Prime Minister Peter O’Neill told Parliament last Friday that if the 30 days expired without a suitable response, the commissioners would be referred to the appropriate authorities to recover the money and fees paid to them.

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I was taken aback (to say the least) after reading this article titled "MCC Spillover at Ramu Mine Site" on PNG Mine Watch and watching the below video titled "Out of sight, Out of Mined' from Oxfam Australia. Althought they are two different companies mining different metals - the state of the rivers and vegetation looks surprisingly simmilar...

Source: Oxfam Australia

The vast majority of Australian mining, oil and gas companies have no clear public commitment to gain the consent of Indigenous peoples before commencing projects on their land, according to a new report.