Trading Bougainville Copper (ADRs) 867948

und die Hoffman Crew, Bougainville entdeckt hat. Dann steht da kein Baum mehr! :-))  

Dann müsste man jetzt eigentlich offiziell Anzeige gegen Noah Musingku aka King David Peii erstatten. Dies könnte doch der Präsident der ESBC, Herr Sturm, übernehmen, was meint Ihr?  

Das könnte doch Jeder!

Warum Axel Sturm? Es müsste doch irgend Jemand auf Bougainville die "Eier haben", sich hier hervor zu tun!  

Schon seit 2005 liegen mehrere Haftbefehle gegen Musingku vor.

“There are warrants for the arrest of Musingku over his money scam."

http://www.pmw.c2o.org/2005/boug4846.html

Think tank sees need for stepped up Australian aid support for Bougainville


An Australian think tank is calling for a Pacific mission to return to the autonomous Papua New Guinea province of Bougainville to ensure there is no re-emergence of violence.

The Australia Strategic Policy Institute, in a report called "A Stitch in Time" says ten years on from the withdrawal of the international peace mission to the province, there are worrying signs that the province could again tip over into instability.

An ASPI analyst, Karl Claxton, says many of the social and economic conditions that sparked the civil war are still there and may be getting worse.

He says Australia needs to lead a new Pacific assistance effort to avoid the need for another military intervention several years down the track.

Mr Claxton says they are not suggesting the establishment of a shadow government.

"But to be working within and alongside the autonomous Bougainville government as the new Bougainville civil service stands up next year. And to be mentoring and helping. What ASPI is saying is that it"s time really to put the focus back on Bougainville and to be giving it a bit more help [and] helping the Papua New Guinea government which needs to be a central partner to prevent conflict re-emerging in the future."

Karl Claxton of the Australia Strategic Policy Institute

ramunickel | November 8, 2013 at 3:40 pm | Tags: Australia, Bougainville, Human rights, Landholders, Papua New Guinea | Categories: Papua New Guinea | URL: http://wp.me/pMvf7-2Oe
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Momis and Rio Tinto accused of trying to hijack Bougainville mining law
by ramunickel
In a stringing public attack, Bougainville President John Momis has been accused of colluding with mining giant Rio Tinto to bulldoze into law a new Mining Act that would pave the way for the re-opening of the Panguna mine.

Twenty five years ago the environmental damage caused by the mine led to a civil war in which as many as fifteen thousand people lost their lives. Rio Tinto has never apologized or paid any compensation for the pollution or the terrible human costs of its mine.

Bougainville leader Sam Kauona has today published a two page article in the national press presenting his stinging criticism of Momis and Rio Tinto - The Regan/BCL political assault on Bougainville emerges from the shadows.

Kauona says Momis has acted unconstitutionally in trying to bulldoze a new mining law, drafted by Rio Tinto subsidiary Bougainville Copper and Australian academic Anthony Regan, through the Bougainville Parliament without public consultation.

This is the third draft of the Mining law. Two earlier versions were rejected by the public because they gave too much control of mineral rights and mining decisions to Momis and the politicians.

Kauona says there is now a tidal wave of public opposition on Bougainville to the reopening of the Panguna mine and Momis, Rio Tinto and Regan are desperately trying to swim against the current by seizing control of decision making.

Kauona says many Bougainvillians are puzzled as to why the man they elected President and "who for 40 years jumped up and down and led the opposition to the Bougainville Copper Act" is now the "key sponsor, apologist, supporter and cheerleader for BCL".

Kauona says the latest draft of the Mining law allows Rio Tinto through BCL to retain its lease over Panguna "as if nothing happened".

"Nothing happened? Bougainville knows that a war happened and up to 15,000 people died including PNG Defence Force Members. The Bougainville Copper Act  was a direct cause of the war".

Kauona asks what rewards Momis and Regan might have been promised in the future for their assistance to Rio Tinto over the new law? As a possible answer, he points a finger at the way BHP has provided for ex-PNG Prime Minister Mekere Morauta since he left office after providing the company with immunity for the environmental damage its Ok Tedi mine caused in Western Province. Some murky links between Regan, ANU, AusAID and Rio Tinto have already been exposed.

The first draft Mining law was rejected by the public after it was exposed that Momis's claims the law was a world first in the rights it gave to local people to decide whether to allow mining on their land were untrue and the law vested final decision making powers with the government.

However promises that the law would be redrafted to take account of the public views have proved to be false and, says Kauona, the latest draft law (which has not been made public) is just a reiteration of the first draft - which is why it has been brought in to Parliament via the back door.

Kauona says the new draft, which has been written by "rich white lawyers"  would drag Bougainville back to the Colonial era by denying landowners any rights in relation to mining, effectively stealing the ground out from under their feet.

Kauona's article comes on the same day an Australian think-tank has warned the Australian government it could have to provide a new military intervention on Bougainville in a few years as the island could again descend into violence.

ramunickel | November 8, 2013 at 7:10 pm | Tags: Anthony Regan, Bougainville, Environmental damage, Human rights, John Momis, Landholders, Mekere Morauta, Ok Tedi, Panguna, Papua New Guinea, Rio Tinto, Sam Kauona | Categories: Corruption, Environmental impact, Financial returns, Human rights, Papua New Guinea | URL: http://wp.me/pMvf7-2Os
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Ich glaube Momis wird irgendwann die Aussis zu Hilfe rufen.  

....so ganz ohne freundschaftlich/partnerschaftliche guidiance wird das wohl nichts ;-)  

die meekamuis haben durch ihren illegalen abbau mindestens genauso viel die umwelt verschmutzt wie rio tinto für BCL.
wer weiß ob die meekamuis diesen krieg nicht angezettelt haben, um die mine abzusperren und über viele jahre illegal gold zu schürfen.
die haben sich die taschen richtig voll gemacht und wollen deshalb die wiederaufnahme mit allen mitteln verhindern.
natürlich begründen sie es mit ihren "mother earth" aber das ist alles nur bla bla.
keine ahnung was da hilft, aber mit sicherheit nicht die verhandlung am tisch.
die meekamuis werden immer ein grund finden warum noch nicht.
wer hat ideen?  

Den wichtigeren Punkt in dieser Thematik spielen die Landeigner und nicht Kauona!
Weiß Nekro vll. wie diese zu dem Minengesetz stehen?





 

http://asopa.typepad.com/asopa_people/2013/11/...trade-diplomacy.html
10 November 2013
Australia"s Bougainville challenge: aligning aid, trade & diplomacy

PETER JENNINGS & KARL CLAXTON | The Strategist

The oversightersA DECADE AFTER the successful peacekeeping mission, and a year and a half before the window opens for a referendum on Bougainville"s political status, the peace process is dangerously adrift.

The pathbreaking unarmed regional peace effort, begun by New Zealand in late-1997 and led by Australia from early 1998 to mid-2003, is cited as a model of innovative and flexible peacemaking. It ensured large-scale fighting didn"t resume and it bought time to prepare for an orderly political settlement.

Sadly, those preparations have been insufficient to ensure a workable and sustainable political outcome. The Papua New Guinea Government, donors, neighbours and officials on Bougainville have failed to build the capacity the Autonomous Bougainville Government (ABG) requires to remediate the causes of the earlier conflict.

Although there have been positive developments, most indicators are far from encouraging as the mid-2015 to 2020 window for a referendum approaches. Misunderstandings between Port Moresby and the ABG remain, while economic imperatives to resume mining as the only realistic basis for autonomy or independence add new pressures.

Unemployment among young men, damage to social, economic, and physical infrastructure and strong pro- and anti-independence views persist in different areas. At the moment the most likely referendum outcome  is a clear-cut but far from unanimous vote for independence, which PNG is likely to refuse to ratify. That"s an outcome that Bougainville is unprepared for, and would be destabilising.

Although the risk of renewed conflict is fundamentally a challenge for PNG and the ABG to manage, Australia has a major stake too. Even if a PNG–ABG stand-off didn"t lead to violence, it would squeeze Australia uncomfortably between impulses to accept the results of a peace process we sponsored and the imperative to stand by the more influential partner, PNG.

Our interests would be even sharper if violence re-emerges, given our strategic, business and reputational stake in PNG, potential for disorder to spread, public opinion and our security partners" expectations.

But a re-intervention after mid-2015 could be much larger and more costly—closer to the more complex missions in Solomon Islands or even Timor-Leste—than the limited effort appropriate from 1997-2003. Military aspects of those later interventions cost $350 million and $4.3 billion, respectively, while ten years on we"re still spending $125 million annually on post-conflict reconstruction in Solomon Islands via a scaled-down RAMSI. Renewed violence would also present a more dangerous peacemaking environment than that of 1997-98.

The new Government"s decision to more closely align Australia"s foreign, development, and trade efforts to advance specific interests as well as poverty-reduction could assist. An Australian-led development effort to assist Bougainville is needed to forestall another peacekeeping mission.

While this initiative would require greater investment (Bougainville"s current share of PNG aid isn"t much higher than its proportion of the population) such an effort could make up crucial lost ground in areas such as public safety, community awareness and legal, business and administrative capacity.

This categorically wouldn"t seek to replicate the RAMSI-style shadow government necessary following the collapse of governance in the Solomons. Rather, it"d forestall the need for an intrusive re-intervention. While dialogue between Port Moresby and the ABG has increased a bit and Australian assistance was starting to rise under AusAID, a much more concerted pre-referendum focus is required and must be coordinated with regional partners. Australian elements would include:

   establishing a high-priority task force to lead the implementation of a strategy for Bougainville

   tripling development assistance to Bougainville from within current aid funding (to around $100 million a year, with offsets from outside PNG"s aid program)

   an emphasis on training the ABG, particularly by Australians willing to mentor the Bougainville Public Service under the Australian Government"s New Colombo Plan

   enhanced Australian Federal Police support for the Bougainville Police

   initiating low-key defence contributions to rebuilding efforts

   international advocacy (including through Australia"s temporary UNSC seat)

   particularly encouraging Pacific island nations" involvement in a regional solution

   a strong focus on empowering female and community voices for peace

   supporting a closer and more sustained dialogue within PNG.

While PNG sovereignty concerns and some continuing Bougainvillean suspicions about Australia"s motives would need to be handled sensitively, this should be manageable given all sides" strong interest in preserving peace. Neither autonomy nor independence would be an outcome which would necessarily ensure or exclude the possibility of violence.

The essential requirement is that the referendum process is conducted reasonably smoothly, is seen to be legitimate (requiring realistic options to choose between meaningful autonomy or independence), and that all parties can live with the result.

Bougainville presents potential risks and rewards for the new government, but the greatest risks are from Canberra"s inactivity. Alternatively, the rewards for taking a proactive approach are potentially high. Australia has an opportunity to show that we can do more than "send in the troops"—that we have the nous and resources to avert the need for military intervention through concerted whole-of-government action to create the conditions for lasting peace.

In many ways this would be the missing conclusion to the story of Pacific stabilisation operations begun by the Howard government in Bougainville in 1998. Preventive diplomatic action conducted in close cooperation with our regional partners would establish Australia"s credentials as a peacemaker when the region could use calm and far-sighted leadership.

Peter Jennings is executive director and  Karl Claxton is an analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute. Image: Australian Civil-MilitaryCentre
 

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111113New Zealand High Commissioner Visit
By Aloysius Laukai

The New Zealand High Commissioner,to PNG, MARION CRAWSHAW arrived in Buka this morning for a week long visit to Bougainville.

On arrival in Buka she was met by Three members of the National Parliament and ABG officials.

In his welcome remarks, Head of the Human Resourses Divusion, Puara Kamariki said that Bougainville has been working with New Zealand and happy to welcome her to Bougainville on her first official visit to the Region.

She then made a curtesy call on the ABG acting president, Albert Punghau before travelling to Arawa.

The High Commissioner overnights in Arawa tonight and will travel to Buin tomorrow.

She will also visit Tonu High School before returning to Buka then back to Port Moresby on Saturday.

High Commissioner, CRAWSHAW said that as they always say get out of Port Moresby and whilst in Buka she must also get out of Buka and visit out stations.

Ends

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Wie lange ist die Amtszeit von Präsident Momis?
Haben es die "Mininggegner" darauf abgesehen, das ganze so lange hinauszuziehen, um einen eigenen Kandidaten ins Rennen um das Präsidentenamt zu schicken?  

........ob die Ressourcen der Regierung gehören (Momis) u. die Lo`s sich auf ihrem Clangebiet für oder gegen Mining entscheiden können wobei das ABG aber das letzte Wort hat.

Bei der  von Kauona favorisierten Version sind die Lo`s die rechtmässigen Besitzer ihrer Ressourcen u. entscheiden autonam.

Für Panguna sind beide Varianten OK, haben sich die Lo`s doch schon längst für "We want BCL back" entschieden.

Lässt man nach dem Kauona Rezept jedoch Abzocker a la Semple direkt auf die Lo`s in den übrigen Gebieten B`villes los so wird es über kurz oder lang zu Zwistigkeiten mit über den Tisch gezogenen Lo`s kommen.

Also Präsident Momis wurde im Juni 2010 mit einer überragenden Mehrheit von 43.047 Stimmen oder 52,35% ins Amt gewählt und setzte sich gegen 7 Mitstreiter durch.
Er wurde für 5 Jahre gewählt. Also muss er sich erst 2015 wieder zur wahlen stellen.

Wenn man sich dieses überragende Wahlergebnis vor Augen führt, sehe ich meinen Gedanken aus 17740 nicht als sehr realistisch an.

 

Dabei hast du unterschlagen, dass auch Daveona für seine Landeigner den Besitz der Rohstoff unter ihrem Grundstück beansprucht.
Auch wenn sie mal gesagt haben, "We want BCL back" steht dieser wichtige Punkt noch aus!

Ich hoffe, dass heuer noch das große 10-tägige Landeignerforum abgehalten wird, denn nachdem die Landeigner jetzt einen Vorsitzenden gewählt haben und nun alle 9 Gruppierungen handlungsfähig sind, sollte hier in bälde etwas an News kommen...  

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Artisanal miners need education on mercury danger
by ramunickel
NEW THREAT TO BOUGAINVILLE
By Aloysius Laukai | New Dawn

Small alluvial mining is good for the locals however the use of Chemicals such as mercury in the rivers inland is threatening the lives of Bougainvilleans.

Some months ago, New Dawn FM put a story that the use of Mercury was banned because of the damage it can cause on the environments and the human beings who feed in the food cycle system.

In a recent trip to Panguna this reporter took some pictures of women using syringes to pumb mercury to separate the various metal contents under their houses and this is very disturbing indeed.

We have some reports to support this story.

The Mercury Threat
Silent suicide - Illegal artisanal gold miners risk the life of innocent Bougainvilleans!
The island of Bougainville is rich in precious assets: Especially gold is in the focus of indigenous people who want to earn some money by small scale mining.

Unfortunately they are not aware that their new “business” is highly dangerous and can even be mortal.

Reports from Alluvial Mining in the Solomon Islands have also been released on the dangerous operations that is endangering the lives of citizens.

In Bougainville more awareness is needed to make the people aware on the dangers of mercury.

ramunickel | November 12, 2013 at 4:54 am | Tags: artisanal mining, Bougainville, Human rights, Landholders, Papua New Guinea | Categories: Papua New Guinea | URL: http://wp.me/pMvf7-2OW
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Warnings Bougainville peace on the verge of collapse
by ramunickel
Australian Network News

There are warnings peace in Bougainville will collapse if the Australian Government doesn't lead a new development effort.

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute says economic investment is required to prevent further civil unrest.

ASPI's Peter Jennings says Bougainville remains a deeply divided society with the risk of substantial violence continuing.

"In an economic sense, it's very parlous," he said.

"The Island has really seen little or no economic development in the decade since the peace agreement came into effect."

Thousands of people were killed during civil conflict in Bougainville in the late 1980s and the 1990s.

Australia led a peacekeeping mission to the Island in 1998 and stayed there for five years.

A new ASPI report says another peacekeeping mission will be needed unless Canberra helps get Bougainville back on a sustainable path.

"The island is in deep poverty," Mr Jennings said.

"A bit of active diplomacy now and a significant increase in development assistance could actually help to lay the foundations to stop that violence resuming."

The ASPI report is proposing a tripling in aid to the Island, taking the total assistance to just over $AU100 million.

But with Australia scaling back its aid budget that appears unlikely.

"Bougainville has gone off the radar over the last few years, but it is something the Australian Government needs to bring back onto the agenda," Mr Jennings said.

Bougainville is situated between Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands, and is run by the Autonomous Bougainville Government.

A referendum on the independence of Bougainville is due between 2015 and 2020.

Mr Jennings says there's wildly varying opinions on which way the referendum will go.

"There's a very risky difference of expectation on the part of Port Moresby and the Islanders about what's likely to happen in the referendum on independence," he said.

"I think Port Moresby expects that the Island will choose to stay with PNG.

"It's more than likely that a majority of Islanders might choose for independence.

"Managing that mismatch of expectations is one of the big challenges we face in coming years."

ramunickel | November 12, 2013 at 4:57 am | Tags: Australia, Bougainville, Landholders, Papua New Guinea | Categories: Australia, Papua New Guinea | URL: http://wp.me/pMvf7-2OY
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Sturm stoops low for latest illogical, self-serving attack on Bougainville people
by ramunickel
Silent suicide: Illegal gold miners risk lives in Bougainville
AXEL STURM | European Shareholders in Bougainville Copper | PNG Exposed

THE ISLAND OF BOUGAINVILLE is rich in precious assets and gold especially is in the focus of indigenous people who want to earn money by small scale mining. Unfortunately they are not aware that their new business is highly dangerous and can even be lethal.

Not far to the south, as Radio New Zealand International reports, Transparency Solomon Islands is urging the government to investigate claims that mercury is being used at the gold mine on Guadalcanal.

As in Solomon Islands the use of mercury is also the customary way to separate gold from rock in Bougainville. The gold is then sold to dealers who don"t care that Bougainville"s environment may be damaged for years. They also don"t care that Bougainvilleans may die from severe intoxication.

Such individuals, some of them so-called "former combatants", are trying to undermine the Autonomous Bougainville Government"s honourable struggle to introduce modern environment-caring mining in Bougainville.

Only a few huge mining companies such as Rio Tinto or BHP Billiton are able to provide such sophisticated high-end technology. Quite obviously this means that money makers in the background will try to protect their dirty business at any price. In brief, they are simply thieves who steal from Mother Earth. And they don"t pay taxes either.

ramunickel | November 12, 2013 at 9:05 am | Tags: Axel Sturm, Bougainville, Landholders, Panguna, Papua New Guinea, Rio Tinto | Categories: Papua New Guinea | URL: http://wp.me/pMvf7-2P4
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Wäre vielleicht besser sich dort unten gar nicht mehr einzumischen...  

Stillstand open end.
Die Meekamuis werden illegal abbauen, so lange es geht.
Nichts wird voran gehen.
Man wird immer einen Grund finden, warum gerade jetzt kein re-opening oder zumindest nicht mit BCL, weil die Meekamuis mit einer anderen Firma mehr Geld raus schlagen können.
Der Aktienkurs kommt nicht wieder auf die Beine.
Ich finde das Verhalten unglaublich skandalös.
Man müsste die alle weg sperren.
Die sind hoch kriminell und zudem sind es Mörder!
Nur keiner traut sich was zu machen und alle schauen weg.
Lieber versinken alle in Dreck und Armut, während sich ein paar wenige illegal die Taschen voll machen.
Und es ist wie immer.
Derjenige, der als erster den Mund aufmacht, bekommt auf die Schn....
Folglich stehe ich in Diesem Punkt auf der Seite von Axel.
Der Kurs ist sowieso im Keller und zu verlieren haben wir sowieso nichts, außer Zeit.
Die Frage ist nur, ob man diplomatischer vorgehen könnte und die Sachen nicht in der Öffentlichkeit breittreten sollte oder gerade doch!?
Ich meine, Axel denkt sich doch auch etwas dabei und er ist sehr lange dabei.
Hat jemand bessere Vorschläge als den Mund zu halten und taubstumm zuzuschauen?
 

dass nicht mal Präsident Momis härter gegen Kauona vorgeht, entweder denkt er, dass sich dieses Thema von allein mit der Zeit erledigt.
Oder diese Fraktion ist aktuell einfach noch zu mächtig um ihnen entgegen zu treten.
Hier wäre eine massive Stärkung der Polizeikräfte hilfreich, bestenfalls geschultes Personal aus Australien/Neuseeland.
Man darf nicht vergessen, wie viele tausend Waffen sich noch in der Bevölkerung befinden!
Die jederzeit wieder zum Einsatz kommen können...  

@havanna
Wir sind als Aktionäre doch alle Partei. Hast ja an den Kommentaren zu Sturms Ergüssen gesehen.
Zitat LOFP:
Lieber versinken alle in Dreck und Armut, während sich ein paar wenige illegal die Taschen voll machen.

So läuft es doch fast überall. Nur die wenigsten auf Bougainville wissen was sie all die Jahre verpassen. Doch auf unserer Insel gibts eben kein System, keine Macht, keine Ordnung, kein Recht. Und so lange das so bleibtwird sich Rio zurückhalten mit Investitionen und es wird sich nichts ändern, leider.
Schade, schade ...