PNG must learn from BP oil spill in the US

PAPUA New Guinea must learn from the current oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in the United States.
The spillage happened when an explosion occurred at one of BP’s oil rigs resulting in massive pollution of the sea off Louisiana and Alabama.
The pollution is spreading toward the Florida coastline.
The PNG government need to make “common sense laws” that protects all stakeholders, especially the landowners who depend on the area to be mined for their livelihood.
The PM is obviously taking sides with the miners, hence the passage of the amended Environmental Act.
In the case of BP’s oil spill in the US, BP is now paying a high price for the environmental damage.
The damages include families who have lost their fishing business, resorts and laid-off workers of other oil companies who have suffered because of current moratorium against new off-shore drilling in the area imposed by the US government.
BP also has to pay for the clean-up of the oil pollution in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mel Kelepi
Port Moresby