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

places or settlement where they are surveying will be relocated. In SST most employees arewomen. The disadvantage is that officers are directly benefiting, and also a bad smell us beingsmelled by people in Kreer Market, Caltech and the Widnjammer. No one has been harmed bysharks from the waste dump of SST. ESPG has a share in the company believed to be 10-20%.Frances Sumanop was the planner when the factory was built. The government has signed anagreement with the Taiwanese government that another fish canning factory will be built inWewak. Another project is the Gavien (???) Cravien (???) Rubber Project, all rubber treesplanted through the country will be shipped to wewak and up to Angoram. Another project isHawain logging, which will last for ten years. There is no political difference between leadersso the government is running very well. Extension of Wewak Harbour is another project.Relocation of CIS is another project, it will be relocated to Passam.Martin Patikec of the Waterbaord .Martin is from Kupala and is 39 years old, male, awaterboard supervisor. Production Supervisor. 14,080 litres are consumed daily [by SST} andtheir bill is paid by cheque. Each tank contains 1.5 megalitres, or 1,500,000 litres. Why aretown people always complaining about water? They want to clean pipe, then the power goesoff. South seas tuna have their own separate pipe from Brandi water board to SST. SST is in thetop 20 of their customers, and they pay their bills promptly.In a telephone conversation with Waterboard Manager Patrick Ginimbo, we asked about thetown’s regular water cut offs. We suggested we were interested in moving my company toWewak and wanted to know where night time water cuts were occurring regularly. He said thisonly happens in high locations. I said here and in Kaindi, at St benedicts, both low levels, wehad water cuts 3 times a week (since we’d been here, three weeks thus far) and sometimes wellinto the morning. We were told this was to fill the SST tanks. I asked if this were so. He said,“They only do that on week days, not on weekends.” At one point he also said he didn’t knowabout the cuts, and said “I stay around the Windjammer and I still have water.” Then I askedabout the SST consumption and how big their tanks were. He said that, although they never runthem to empty, only halfway, the tanks take 1.5 megalitres of water, which is 1,500,000 litres ofwater. I asked if this is a problem with the given water supply for Wewak, and he said yes, butthey’re figuring this out at present.Tom Fandim, the East Sepik Provincial PlannerSST project is one of the biggest development that East Sepik Provincial Government initiatedto have it established in the province. The site where SST is located now is on the commercialland area. According to the Provincial Planner for East Sepik SST will expand its factory. SSTwill take on board another factory for canning the tuna being loinned at the moment and notexporting it to Western Samoa for canning.125