Fishy business. The Social Impact of SST.pdf - Act Now!

More documents

Recommendations

Info

The SSTC and the government are only interested in the monetary benefits they will reapfrom this fishing project at our expense. Their cruelty and arrogant approach to us thecommunity and its employees speaks for itself. I am sure the recent strike orchestrated bywomen factory workers will hopefully send the message. When you are in any managementcapacity and such incidents arise, you know that there is something wrong in the system.The SSTC project is such a project that has all kinds of faults in its system and the strikeover pay by the women is only the tip of the iceberg. It is setting fire to fuel and I won’t besurprised in all these grievances by different interest group will take the opportunity tostorm the factory down. I think the Provincial Government might have a similar knee jerkreaction from the general public of East Sepik Province.The land where the SSTC plant sits on maybe acquired and registered as PNG HarborsBoard land but that does not take away my right as a traditional landowner. By establishingthe very factory my traditional land owner rights are violated and not respected in themanner the whole process was conducted. Our traditional fishing grounds are polluted andon that basis all the nearby villages and Meni have case to peruse against the State and theSSTC. Even the land maybe belonging to SSTC as sublease from PNG Harbors Board butthe resources of the is collective property and belongs to all the East Sepik Islands andcoastal people. If there are benefits drawn from fish from the open sea it has to benefit theentire province than only few selfish authorities to squander the money.We strongly feel that we are been used. The Saure landowners would probably share oursentiments too. It’s a pity they have to move the project from Saure to the present sitewithout proper consultation with Saure people to reach an win-win situation. Even thinghappened so fast that the Saure people and Meni (and Kreer people) were wondering aboutnot knowing where they fit in. There could be some misunderstanding between differentlandowner groups and this is possibly the situation created here by the government and thecompany to divide us and force us into some infightings. But the situation is very clear andit needs all the interest groups to unite as a solid team to show some resistance in a nonviolentmanner or the situation will get out of hand.One SSTC employee from Meni:I worked with the security guard section of the SSTC. We get paid K0.90 per hour forprobation period for 3 months before we are categorized as fulltime staff and paid K1.00per hour. We make on average K8 per week and K80 per fortnight. Its not always true thatmost workers get K80 but some get as low as K30 and the people at the supervisory andadministrative hierarchy get paid at different rate – better than us. The administrationdoesn’t feel the pain and hardship the ordinary people will feel on very low wage scale.Some people have to walks from miles or catch PMV for up to K4 – K8 per day and alltheir money is used up on bus fares. Some don’t have proper working equipment andfacilities but people are paid.The surveillances and monitoring aspect of the fishing--who can be really sure what goes onwhen transshipping undeclared fish or making illegal drainage of waste oil?. If they do it inthe middle of the night, we don’t have the equipment and capacity to conduct independentinvestigations to prove them guilty. Many times breaches of environmental contracts arecomprised through solving it internally such as offering certain favors to the PNGobservers.116
Thomas Nigints was one of the few people said to have some share in the SSTC throughANGCO who also is running his security spin-off for the SSTC. Arthur Somare wasGovernor of ESP when the project was negotiated and brought to Wewak. It seems more ofa political winner for the East Sepik MPs than any other thing in parliament. That wasnormal procedures were never followed. All the necessary things such as land, water, andpower were never a problem for SSTC.Our landowner association is not an established one. We are trying to bring bites and piecestogether to form this group to give us a voice if we want to fight against SSTC and theProvincial Government which involved people like the Somares who are predominantlyhaving their hands dirty in many projects and developments in ESP. We are fighting a giantand through this little voice we would make noise loud enough to get attention fromrelevant authorities to further action this fight.Alex Anis:The dredging that is currently going on in front of the PNG Harbors Board land and thewharf is an Australian company called Hall Construction paid at a rate of K100 000 per day.They will dredge to allow for the big catcher boats to come ashore and there is also plan todredge the front part of the Yacht Club. They are going to dig out the reef and all the coralsthat we fish to supplement our diets. If this story leaks to the other members of thecommunity you will have disaster in your hand. We are planning a big protest if thedredging is going to be moved up to the Yacht Club.We have several illegal foreign elements especially Asians wondering about in Wewak. Aresurveillance authorities are weak and they are taking advantage of it. There are stories ofprostitution and human smuggling in East Sepik. Firstly through the Winhjamma Hotelwere about 4 Papuans ladies were brought to work there. They are gone now butInterviews 7 July 2005, with the Kaunum family, Meni village.We are living as the original Wewak locals, the original village is at Wewak Hill, then theymoved to Wewak NBC, then to Wewak Yacht Club, and now there are the 7 generation livingat Meni village.Did you register for spin off businesses?117
Page 1 and 2:
Fishy BusinessThe social impact of
Page 3 and 4:
4. Townspeople and market women 158
Page 6 and 7:
More to the point, the contract for
Page 8 and 9:
‘development’ projects will be
Page 10 and 11:
whole concept of MSY; the problem o
Page 12:
noted most reasonably that the skil
Page 16 and 17:
• That landowners groups be encou
Page 18 and 19:
This project adopted an open protoc
Page 20 and 21:
public figures who had seen RD Tuna
Page 22 and 23:
suddenly costs the government more
Page 24 and 25:
problems of the poor.’ He pledges
Page 26 and 27:
scores of landowner groups who regi
Page 28 and 29:
areas…There were promises of new
Page 30 and 31:
might say today. This is certainly
Page 32 and 33:
During the 1950’s over 860,000 co
Page 34 and 35:
of reorientation of focus and direc
Page 36 and 37:
But it is the provincial government
Page 38 and 39:
title, sensu the Windjammer, is ‘
Page 40 and 41:
Blue Water Tuna is a private PNG co
Page 42:
9.5.05: The Bismark Fishing Company
Page 45 and 46:
The two landowning clans of Parom g
Page 47 and 48:
ilong mi na long tingting bilong ol
Page 49 and 50:
ol set ups, say olsem 20 or 30 set
Page 51 and 52:
No contact or awareness with Marien
Page 53 and 54:
Los Angeles, CA 90021USATel: 1-800-
Page 55 and 56:
meters out from its original size,
Page 57 and 58:
The Offshore Masters is going to be
Page 59 and 60:
I am not aware of any Environmental
Page 61 and 62:
“Based on the 970 local labour re
Page 63 and 64:
Water Resources Act (Chapter No. 20
Page 65 and 66: The 26 Local Level Governments in t
Page 67 and 68: people were made to believe that ne
Page 69 and 70: Nianguma, so the leaders of the 8 c
Page 71 and 72: 3. That there was a totally unbeara
Page 73 and 74: p10:p12:73
Page 75 and 76: p.14:75
Page 77 and 78: . Marine Ripples articleThe followi
Page 79 and 80: In general, I feel SSTC has present
Page 81 and 82: •how the tuna factory development
Page 83 and 84: Responses to Consent Condition Exce
Page 85 and 86: “Sometimes while working we are t
Page 87 and 88: fisheries myself at one stage and f
Page 89 and 90: N: “Have you sponsored sporting g
Page 91 and 92: never cleaned fish before, that was
Page 93 and 94: IB: “Oh sure, but somebody’s go
Page 95 and 96: Philomena Naura: “The smell aroun
Page 97 and 98: There is no covering to the oxidizi
Page 99 and 100: Above: four consecutive pay slips f
Page 101 and 102: Above is a list of curses said to b
Page 103 and 104: duties on one of the ships offloadi
Page 105 and 106: on the side of the fishing vessel.
Page 107 and 108: The fishery observer told us that i
Page 109 and 110: Speaking of prostitution on fishing
Page 111 and 112: and if any major disruptions occur
Page 113 and 114: Most of us here are very unfortunat
Page 115: The husband of the woman employed a
Page 119 and 120: Did SST place FADs in the sea?The c
Page 121 and 122: doing it, it’s going to be over o
Page 123 and 124: Landowners are also deeply disturbe
Page 125 and 126: places or settlement where they are
Page 127 and 128: in the revenue, so when the opportu
Page 129 and 130: And as soon as they’d finished th
Page 131 and 132: There is no legal case as yet with
Page 133 and 134: owns the land legally and therefore
Page 135 and 136: There is still need to recruit more
Page 137 and 138: In regard to the production, by the
Page 139 and 140: The company invited interested peop
Page 141 and 142: strategy is very well used by forei
Page 143 and 144: employees and those whose work requ
Page 145 and 146: The present Human Resource Manager
Page 147 and 148: working gear? In my section I wear
Page 149 and 150: working for a whole first week with
Page 151 and 152: Serah from Manam island, married wi
Page 153 and 154: stret long mipela ol mama husait I
Page 155 and 156: The supervisors in the plant/engine
Page 157 and 158: The color of the sea has changed. F
Page 159 and 160: Donald Jacob, Catrans fuel distribu
Page 161 and 162: Kapmandu Service station. Did South
Page 163 and 164: Three women involved with roadside
Page 165 and 166: export processing zones and then in
Page 167 and 168:
When we asked if this meant sportin
Page 169 and 170:
then men’s. Usually they’re exc
Page 171 and 172:
The WWF consultant also notes that
Page 173 and 174:
of a company like SST cannot be pla
Page 175 and 176:
East Sepik Governor Arthur Somare s
Page 177 and 178:
The cost of the project is between
Page 179 and 180:
The National Shipping Page, 1.6.04W
Page 181 and 182:
that have similar fish factory set-
Page 183 and 184:
Infofish website : PNG: Tuna export
Page 185 and 186:
Post-Courier 20.6.05185
Page 187 and 188:
Did your application form ask you a
Page 189 and 190:
Do you know whether the Provincial
Page 191 and 192:
The Provincial AdministratorDept. o
Page 193 and 194:
4. Human Resources registerees, Kew
Page 195 and 196:
195
Page 197 and 198:
Under Spin-Off Business Activities
Page 199 and 200:
Finally, Honourable Ministers, Memb
Page 201 and 202:
The adverse non-immune (toxic) and
Page 203 and 204:
low income) will have an impact in
Page 205 and 206:
ed and pink plastic roses are every
Page 207 and 208:
207
Page 209 and 210:
Tuna fisheriesThe management system
Page 211 and 212:
• Monitor interactions between th
Page 213 and 214:
Programme is expanding this program
Page 215 and 216:
This office recommends that, since
Page 217 and 218:
commercial industry still deny any
Page 219 and 220:
219
Page 221 and 222:
221
Page 223 and 224:
REPORTER: If you come and you put t
Page 225 and 226:
Berman, M. 1997. Faust, the First D
Page 227 and 228:
Lutkehaus, N., C. Kaufman, W.E. Mit
show all

Fishy business. The Social Impact of SST.pdf - Act Now!

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

Delete template?

Save as template?