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

No contact or awareness with Marienberg people occurred before running the road through, andthey did so on the basis of having a prior national plan for a highway to run through there. Theywere just following through with the plan, it seemed---and yet Moses says he asked AndrewWaram the Prov Forestry Officer and Works office people and they didn’t know about anyplans existent for this road to be made, it was strictly something Sana ordered the crew to do. Itwas Andrew Waram, and Moses himself, sitting on the Forestry Board, with the RegionalManager who came back from Lae, who ordered the equipment to be stopped and their work tocease until landowners were consulted. Sana apparently had told Michael Saulep to make theroad. The Merienberg people do need a road from Merienberg to Angoram, but they certainlydo not need one to Kuam, where it is being cut.All these Somare cronies, including Glen Black…SRDC owners are Sir M, Frank Tay, JoeGawi (police from Angoram), and they all have 2500 or so shares totaling 10,000 shares. Theyhired Dato yo, this Malaysian company to start work in Awain on east coast, which the did aftera Taiwanese company had pulled out, having incurred debts to subcontractors. They areHeydrich (sp?). Heydrick wants to court SRDC over these debts, but Dato Yo’s company musthave had to pay off these debts when they started there. They also pulled out and went to thisarea in the Lower Sepik LFA (there are no FMAs in ESP but there are 2 LFAs and they are thisLower Sepik LFA and the Awain LFA, both of which have been developed by Somare’scompany SRDC).Royalties from the LFA logging have gone to Kaup people, but the premiums of 6-7 millionhave gone to the company itself without any reforestation, spin offs, local participation orbenefits, contrary to The National Forestry Act itself.j. Company ownershipSouth Seas Tuna Corporation Limited was registered with the IPA by Michael David McCulley,the Managing Director, with the assistance of O’Brien’s Lawyers in Port Moresby. It’s sharesare divided between:FCF Fishery Company, of Taiwan, ROC, which owns 5,708,791 shares at US$1/share;the EastSepik Provincial Government, which owns 283,868 shares are US$1/share; and ErskineNominees, Ltd., Port Moresby, which owns 2,707,341 shares at US$1/share. [Located at Sec 40,Lot 27, Granville, Port Moresby NCD]. Erskine Nominees Ltd. os comprised of Dudley MooreYari-Yari (PNG) and Steven Richard O’Brien (Australia) (the latter being one of the lawyers forSST, O’Briens Lawyers Port Moresby).In other words, SST is largely owned by FCF, which consists of:51