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Ironing out differences
The Panguna mine landowners have come together last weekend to settle their differences and plans for a re-opening is brewing once all plans are in place. Parties give nod for mine to re-open
IT may take Bougainville several years to get back to where it used to be 20 years ago! Twenty years back, Bougainville could have been the Kuwait of the Pacific!
This is because of the once booming Panguna mine, which made PNG, Bougainville and the Pacific smile with its high flying life!
But it never did because leaders that were in power at that time did not work hard enough to save and make it happen.
But that is history now, 20 years later, after what’s left of Panguna since it was torched, closed and left to the dogs — is all rubble — the key players in the mine closure are now back on course and want it re-opened but with totally new deals on board.
The positive thing is that the once economic provider of Papua New Guinea and Bougain-ville for that matter, one that costs thousands of lives — the Panguna Copper mine may soon re-open if all goes well.
Last weekend, a significant meeting took place, which also caused a bit of a row within the ABG, but the landowners from the six mine lease affected areas came together in Buka to iron out their “grudges” and come together to make resolutions that will now form the basis of further negotiations for the hopeful historical re-opening. Bougainville Affairs Minister Fidelis Semoso was given a letter of request to host this meeting, which he did financially support.
ABG President John Momis defended his leadership claiming ABG has been working hard to get these landowners together — the problem has been that since then, there has not been any media involvement to make it known publicly that such was happening.
But as they say, that is history, the landowners under their six mine lease categories had successfully come up with resolutions that are now detailed as follows:
Special Mining Lease landowner communities
Resolutions:
* The ABG and the Regional Member for Bougainville in the PNG Parliament and Minister for Bougainville Affairs are requested to provide the funding needed to establish the six mine lease area associations and an umbrella organisation covering all people in the six mine lease areas, so that those bodies can represent the people of the areas in processes for review of the Bougainville Copper Agreement (BCA) and other negotiations about the future of the Panguna copper and gold mine
* BCL must pay all outstanding rent, royalty and compensation monies that are payable to landowners in the mine lease areas, together with interest accrued
* The ABG and the Regional Member are requested to fund the establishing and operation of an office for the umbrella organisation and for the six mine lease area organisations.
Upper Tailings Lease Landowner communities
Resolutions:
* The ABG and the Regional Member for Bougainville in the PNG Parliament and Minister for Bougainville Affairs are requested to provide the funding needed to establish the six mine lease area associations and an umbrella organisation covering all people in the six mine lease areas, so that those bodies can represent the people of the areas in processes for review of the Bougainville Copper Agreement (BCA) and other negotiations about the future of the Panguna copper and gold mine
* The ABG and the Regional Member are requested to fund and assist with all major obstacles to the unification of the people in the six mine lease areas
* BCL must pay all outstanding rent, royalty and compensation monies that are payable to landowners in the mine lease areas, together with interest accrued
* The ABG and the Regional Member are requested to fund the establishing and operation of an office for the umbrella organisation and for the six mine lease area organisations.
Lower Tailings Lease landowner communities
Resolutions:
* The ABG and the Regional Member are requested to fund:
* All major outstanding reconciliations that are continuing obstacles to the unification of the people in six mine lease areas and
* All steps (such as elections or other processes) needed to establish the six mine lease area associations
* BCL must pay all outstanding rent, royalty and compensation monies to landowners in the mine lease areas
* If an agreement is made for BCL to re-open the Panguna mine, there must also be an agreement for a Lower Tailings Lease company to manage the tailings generated by the mine and deposited in the lower tailings lease area
Statement of views of the Lower Tailings Lease landowners:
* Draw down of powers over mining and petroleum and their transfer to the ABG must be completed before the Panguna Mine re-opens
* No mining company except BCL should mine at Panguna and
* A completely new mining agreement must replace the BCA before mining is allowed to resume and it must accommodate all concerns and interests of the people of the six mine lease areas, as well as those of the people of Bougainville as a whole
Port Mine Access Road Lease landowner communities
Resolutions:
* The ABG and Regional Member should assist in every way possible with the registration and establishing of the six mine lease landowner associations and the umbrella organisation
* BCL must make a goodwill payment to the mine lease landowners before any recognition of the BCA
* The issues discussed with the ABG Mining Department in meetings over the past 12 to 18 months, (such as reconciliation issues and mining policy issues) must be re-visited through reports from and discussions with the Mining Department.Uruwa Lease Landowner communities
Resolutions:
* The landowners of the six mine lease areas must be included in any process for review of the BCA
* As he is Bougainvillean with extensive experience of the mining industry in PNG, Melchior Togolo should be a part of all negotiations about re-negotiation of the BCA
* There must be compensation package to cover past impacts of the mine
* The ABG and the Regional Member should fund offices for the umbrella organisation and the six new mine lease area associations and
* Before there is any mine re-start there must be a cleanup of all toxic chemicals in the mine lease areas.
Arawa Urban Lease landowner communities
Resolutions:
The Arawa, Loloho, Poraka Resource owners Association (ALPROA) has resolved that:
* Copies of the Siokate Lease Agreement must be made available to the landowner representatives (ALPROA) in preparation for the BCA review process
* Outstanding lease payments for the Siokate lease area dating back to 1988 together with accrued interests on the lease payments must be paid by the National Government
* Environmental and damage caused by or associated with the activities of BCL and damage caused by toxic chemicals used by BCL which have had impacts on the Arawa village people and which were not covered in the original BCA or in other agreements BCL made with landowners must be assessed and compensated to cover past damage and must also be covered in any future agreement and
* Information about value of resources must be made available in relation to areas where the situation or status of rents and compensation payable to the landowners or the situation of ownership of land is unclear and in particular the following land:
* Arawa Extension Lease area land
* Loloho bulk fuel storage land area; and
* Loloho Agriculture Lease area land.
The onus is now on both the ABG and the National Government including BCL to act on these demands if they really want Bougainville’s economic recovery take them back to be the Kuwait of the Pacific. -----------
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