Da musst du wohl so manches missverstanden haben ;-)
Das hier ist PT ;-)))))
http://www.bougainville-copper.eu/chairman-s-address.html
Hier ein Interview mit Peter Taylor, BCL CEO
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/201102/s3141836.htm
Bougainville Copper boss ready to talk to mine opponents
Updated February 17, 2011 18:46:37
The Chairman of Rio Tinto subsidiary, Bougainville Copper, says the controversial Panguna mine on Papua New Guinea's island of Bougainville, can be re-opened.
The mine closed in 1988 after it became the spark which ignited a 10-year civil war that left thousands dead and communities torn assunder.
Bougainville Copper Chairman, Peter Taylor, says he will welcome all parties to negotiations for the the re-opening of the mine ...even opponents of mining.
Presenter: Jemima Garrett
Speaker: Peter Taylor, Chairman and Managing Director of Bougainville Copper
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GARRETT: After the war ended, Bougainvillians signed a peace deal with Papua New Guinea which gave them a new autonomous government in the lead up to a referendum on independence between 2015 and 2020. Many believe that for that referendum to be a success, Bougainville must be close to economic self-sufficiency. That is where the Rio Tinto-owned Panguna copper, mine comes in. It is the only project with prospects of providing that sort of revenue but, with its history, getting it up and running again will be a complex task.
Peter Taylor, Chairman and Managing Director of Bougainville Copper, believes the mine can be re-opened.
TAYLOR: I am confident that as far as the company is concerned it can be done, that it can be done economically. The real issue is whether the landowners at Panguna and the government want the mine re-opened.
GARRETT: Public opinion towards the mine has changed dramatically on Bougainville but there are still small but strong pockets of opposition, including from crucial landowner leaders such as Damian Dameng, who was a mentor to the 1980's rebel leader Francis Ona.
That does not seem to phase Peter Taylor.
TAYLOR: I don't think any major infrastructure project whether it be mining or otherwise, or even a road in Sydney, for example, opens without some people objecting to it. Its always a balance between what I might just loosely call the economic gain and benefits you can get from these sorts of projects and the social disruption that is inevitable.
GARRETT: How will you approach people like Damien Dameng who are against the reopening of the mine?
TAYLOR: My approach is to invite everybody to the table. I mean we've got quite a way to go in terms of working out the regime under which the mine will re-open. And as far as Bougainville Copper is concerned the invitation is there for all interested parties to be there at the table to put their points of view to all of the people around the table and, hopefully, we'll be able to work out a workable compromise.
GARRETT: The Bougainville Copper Chairman says he wants to see the landowners and the Bougainville government take an equity stake in the mine, alongside the PNG government and the majority shareholder Rio Tinto. But other more powerful forces are in the wings. Papua New Guinea's Prime Minister, Sir Michael Somare, has talked privately about the possibility of re-opening the mine with Chinese investment rather than with Bougainville Copper. Peter Taylor says he has not been approached about any plan for the Chinese to open the mine.
TAYLOR: The company has the legal rights to the lease and to the infrastructure, so anybody who is interested in getting involved will have to deal with the company and our door is open to that.
GARRETT: John Momis, the President of the autonomous Bougainville government was ambassador to China. Australia's former Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, has well-known links with business in China and, in November, both of those men met with Prime Minister Somare. That's a pretty high powered triumvirate. Does Bougainville Copper have something to worry about in terms of Chinese interests wanting to take over Bougainville copper?
TAYLOR: Well, as I said, there is nothing necessarily wrong with Chinese investment in Bougainville copper. There's been no formal approach to the company directly from Chinese interests or from Prime minister somare, or President Momis, with a plan to include the Chinese but as I said I am willing to listen to any proposition. At the end of the day the investors in the company will have to decide whether they want a partner or not.
GARRETT: The Bougainville mine would produce around 170,000 tonnes of copper a year and half a million ounces of gold. With prices of both metals high it would be a welcome addition to the Rio Tinto stable. But, Peter Taylor says, it will be at least 3 to 5 years before the mine could be operating again.
TAYLOR: A lot depends on the permitting because you know this is almost ..well it is as good as starting again. There will be a new regime. I expect by the time it opens Bougainvlle itself will be administering the mining regime, rather than the national government, but none of that legislation is in place yet, none of the regimes there, so its going to take time to do that. The company itself will have to do a feasibility study that is acceptable to lenders. That typically takes about a year and it's a very expensive process so we don't want to commit to that until we know what the new mining regime will look like; what the tax regime will be, what the royalty regime will be, compensation and so on. We need to have all those in place before we can do that study. So whilst the time frame might be around the 3 to 5 year mark, when we get started on it is a question I can't answer because I am not the only one involved. There's the landowners, the Bougainville government and the national govt to be considered.
GARRETT: What sort of progress would you regard as positive this year?
TAYLOR: Well, if we can actually formally start the negotiation process this year and I do think that is feasible, and indeed perhaps even likely, because the reconciliation process on Bougainville generally is going very well. Amongst the landowners it seems to be going very well. They've agreed on a process to elect their representatives. I'm not sure how long that will take. I know President Momis was hoping that that would have been done by the end of last year. Time has slipped a little bit but we are certainly moving in the right direction and we are certainly moving a lot faster than has occurred in the past. -----------
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