Landowner wants more awareness

A LANDOWNER group representative has called for more awareness among pipeline landowners of the PNG LNG gas project on how they can participate in the equity with regards to the Kroton Option.
Daniel Wagia from Segment Three of the pipeline area said, some of the people could not understand what they would be signing up to as regards the Kroton Equity.
Wagia told a meeting in Port Moresby yesterday of the Umbrella Benefit Sharing Agreement landowners from the pipeline that  they could not understand the information being put out.
“They don’t understand. They are raising other issues totally out of context with what this forum is about,” he said. “What most of these illiterate people here sign may be questioned again later, when their children who now have the opportunity to go through formal education – we don’t want another civil war in the country.”
“What we understand is, there have been more than a hundred shipments already for the (LNG) project that has left the country.
“We should not be told that we don’t have any money to purchase this equity. We cannot resort to getting loans to pay for this equity.”
George Mara of pipeline Segment Two said it would not look right for the people to sign an agreement which they did not understand the contents of.