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

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kina, and when they go back they make about 3-6000 kina per log. So I told them to piss<strong>of</strong>f. And its up to the resource owners to find out and know what is really happening. <strong>The</strong>Wong Wong people have a lot <strong>of</strong> debts here, for the logs and everything here.<strong>The</strong>y’re now telling the people to wait for them to sell the logs before they can be paid.That’s what they tried to do last year with the limestone mining up in the Boikin area. <strong>The</strong>reis a very rich deposit <strong>of</strong> limestone in Hawain all the way to Boikin, and these people tried tocome in and they said no, no, we’ll go in with all our equipment and all our equipment,we’ll bring graders, dozers, everything, well go in and well pay you later, and they neverdid.…I was directly involved with this. I have connections with the landowners there, andwe told them to get out, this is not the way to do <strong>business</strong>. Well I heard rumors that [the onewho did get paid in Hawain] is not a landowner, not a resource owner from that area. …b. Angoram DistrictInterview by Lepas Metoa with Joe Andi - Ward 3 MemberWanem tingting bilong yu long dispela rot na project as a whole?Joe: Hello and thank you long interviewim mi long kisim view bilong people bilong ward 3 andPeople bilong ward 3 long Marianberg. Tingting bilong mi yet, mi stap wantaim ol pipel long natingting bilong mi, yes, mi nidim rot tu. Klostu em 30 years mi stap ino gat wanpela luksavebilong gavman, ilukuk mipela long kain situation olsem. Olsem mipela ol ward members mipelastap long kain rural areas olsem. Planti taim ol pipel istruggle tru long bringim sampela accessbilong ol yet olsem marketing ol yet long ol sampela market wok bilong ol long autsait we rotbilong ol go. So dispela em namba fo (4) taim nau rot ikamap. Long 1974 ProvincialGovernment istatim dispela rot ino completim. Planti damage ikamap eco-system istap. Long1982 SRDC istat wokim dispela rot ino complete. 1992 Provincial Government ikisim bek naino go completim na 2005 SRDC company, ol landowners ol bin kisim dispela developerSumas Kampani nau em wok long dispela rot na planti damage ikamap na igo totally antap mo.Damage nau people istap na ol lukluk na ol nidim compensation long olgeta environment bilongol, property bilong ol, especially mi tok long ol garden kaikai, kokonas em ol properties.Environment em includim ol planti samting istp insait long bus. Long baret system, plantimillion kiau bilong pis ikai, planti yangpela pis idai, baret igat planti use, planti isave usim waralong dring, kuk kaikai, wasim saksak na em tu igo bagarap pinis.Olsem na view bilong ol pipelolsem ol ward members long wanwan area , mi stap wantaim ol pipel bilong mi, tingting bilongol em stap olsem long last namba 9 th date <strong>of</strong> July bung ibin kamap long Saturday na ol laik ibinmention long dispela bung olsem Alois Jerowai, Baltasar Kaprangi olsem private Accountantbilong yumi ol bin stap. Oslem memba na mi lukim pipel bilong ward 13 na 3 ol istap. Viewbilong ol, ol inidim rot tasol ecosystem, tupela hap bai inap long peim dispela or nogat. Askim46

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