Explain waste disposal deal

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THE Minister for Environment, Conservation and Climate Change Wera Mori should not continue to insult the intelligence of Papua New Guineans with his highly camouflaged explanation to support foreign interests at the expense of landowners, communities and the country. A media statement released about a Hong Kong-based company to carry out free dredging of sedimentation at their own cost along all major river tributaries into the sea catchment area is suspicious.
There is no such thing as a free lunch and every uneducated village-based alluvial miners know far too well what the sedimentation holds.
The issue of undersea mining is unresolved while giving a company the rights to scoop all sedimentation to the sea floor and transporting them back to Hong Kong to recover precious metals and backfilling all residual materials to reclaim land there does smell free money and service after taking out their entire operational expenses.
Whoever stands to benefit financially in this chain of activities by circumventing subterranean mining leases under the guise of dredging sediments up to sea floor and beyond should be investigated thoroughly.
We need the Opposition Leader Belden Namah to dig out more answers in parliament.

Observer
NCD

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  • My local river was polluted for 150 years by miners.
    Eventually an entrepreneur came along and dredged the river for quite a few years. He became a millionaire from the commercialising the polluting sediments he recovered.

    Ok Tedi is dredging to try and keep river open during dry seasons. They were warned before production ever started to use a land route. There is a rock-bar across the Fly that cannot be dredged and so some years shipping stops.

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