Hides landowners sign MOU with PNG government to end blockade
By Peter S. Kinjap in Port Moresby Papua New Guinea’s Hides gas landowners from PDL 1 and 7 have signed a memorandum of understanding with the Papua New Guinea government team, paving the way for a...
View ArticleFrustrated PNG gas supply landowners protest over non-payment of royalties
Protesting landowners in Central Province blockade the PNG LNG plant site today in anger over unpaid royalties. Video: EMTV By Freddy Mou in Port Moresby More than 1000 protesters from four villages...
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Panguna landowner women protesters block mine pact, win court order
Panguna women landowner protesters — mothers from the mining affected areas and the women from Central Bougainville — have demanded the Autonomous Bougainville Government to properly address the...
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Images: ‘No BCL, no mining,’ say protesting Panguna women
Landowner women and mothers have protested over plans to reopen the Panguna mine on Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. They demonstrated in Arawa in central Bougainville and blockaded the route to the...
View ArticlePNG court overturns loggers ban on custom landowners entering own land
By Scott Waide in Lae A group of customary landowners in Papua New Guinea has regained access to their land following a significant legal victory against supporters of a Malaysian logging company....
View Article‘Cheated’ PNG landowners threaten to close five fish processing plants
Lae landowners have given the papua New Guinean government seven days to review existing agreements or they will close the disputed tuna fish canneries. Video: EMTV News By Scott Waide in Lae...
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Angore landowners set LNG machinery on fire in more PNG unrest
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk In a show of frustration over the nonpayment of a business development grant, Angore landowners in Hela province have set fire to the massive Hides development LNG...
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Protesters arrested and dogs pepper-sprayed at ‘sacred’ NZ site
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk New Zealand police have pepper-sprayed two dogs and arrested three more people at the site of a controversial land dispute in South Auckland, reports RNZ. The site at...
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Gallery: Guardianship photo shoot with the Ihumātao ‘protectors’
Pacific Media Centre Newsdesk The Pacific Media Centre’s Del Abcede joined the Ihumātao “protectors” protest at the weekend to soak up the atmosphere of guardianship over the future of the sacred...
View ArticleIndonesian indigenous land defenders jailed in fight with pulpwood giant
By Ayat S. Karokaro in Medan Indonesian activists have deplored the recent jailing of two indigenous community members in Sumatra in a land conflict involving an affiliate of pulp and paper giant...
View ArticlePNG landowner group accused of ‘hijack’ over validation in Porgera
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk Allegations of “hijacking and manipulation” of a Papua New Guinea national government sanctioned validation exercise at the Porgera mine in Enga province have been raised,...
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