Puma Energy celebrates World Environment Day

MORE than 50 Puma Energy staff joined people around the world for a collective and transformative action to celebrate World Environment Day in Port Moresby on Friday.
The staff donated shirts, caps, empty drums, water bottles, gloves and waste bags to Roku Primary School in Central and helped clean up the Napa Napa refinery shoreline.
Puma health, safety, security and environment manager Peter Popena said people should be responsible and care for the environment so that it would continue to protect them in future.
“We need to ask ourselves, our families and communities, what have we done as an individual to this greater call,” he said.
Popena said under the theme “Only one earth” focusing on living sustainably with nature, as it called for collective, transformative action on a global scale to celebrate, protect and restore the planet, small things like disposing rubbish at the right place and planting trees to save the world and future generation.
He said the world had only one earth to live on and there would be no other if it was contaminated and destroyed.
Meanwhile, Popena said the company had been compliant with the management of its waste over the years.
“Our refinery operates under the rules and regulations of Papua New Guinea where we have the environmental permitting process that is renewed every year,” he said.
“We have submitted reports and had consultants assess how we did things here.
“The Government approved our reports so that we continued to operate and it’s basically about compliance.”