Payment for villagers

 THE memorandum of agreement review on the royalty split by OkTedi mine is for landowner villagers of the mine, an official says.

Ok Tedi Mine Impacted Area Association (OTMIAA) president Nick Bunn said that to clarify frustrations from locals in Western.

Bunn said the MoA is different from the community mine continuation agreement (CMCA) communities.

“It (MoA) is for the royalty payment allowed by law which they must get it as their benefit and they must review and negotiate with other parties at the expiration of the review agreement.”

“For the CMCA region, our 2006/2007 review agreement was to be reviewed in 2011 but this did not happen so OTMIAA advocated against it.”