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would bring KK7,396,000 for the same period; and the 10% deal would bring K14,791,000 forthose years.Interestingly, though, because this analysis is based on the first plans to base the factory atYawasoro, each of the three investment scenarios takes into account an injection of cash “oralternatively spend[ing] this amount on some infrastructure related to this project like upgradingthe road from Yawasoro to the wharf. This spending on infrastructure can then be convertedinto equivalent share allotment.”Bisambi recommends a 10% equity in the project, however, and furthermore suggests that theESPG “consider transferring two percent (2%) of its share to the Wewak islands LocalGovernment Council to allow tangible economic benefits to flow back to the resource owners.In actual fact tuna fishery is a highly migratory fish stock and therefore no particular group ofislanders can claim legal ownership unless the catch is within the 3 mile limit of the island(s).”The 5% Derivation Grant expected to come to the ESPG from export duties on the loins isestimated at K20 million. It’s impossible, however, to gauge the reliability of this amountwithout more knowledge of market prices and export quantities.2. Excerpts from the Project Agreement for Tuna Processing andExport Facility in Wewak, East Sepik Provincebetween The Independent State of Papua New Guinea and East Sepik ProvincialGovernment and South Seas Tuna Corporation Ltd (Department of the Attorney General)signed 5 July 2000:At that time “South Seas is a joint venture company consisting of ANGCO Limited (“ANGCO”)as The National venturer, FCF Fisheries Co., Ltd (“FCF”) and Starkist Seafood Company, adivision of Starkist Foods, Inc. (“Starkist”). “FCF is a company incorporated in Taiwan and isthe world’s leading Tuna brokering company, which currently supplies Round Tuna loins toprocessors around the world.”…“Starkist is a division of Starkist Foods, Inc., a companyincorporated in the State of California, and is the world’s pre-eminent processor and marketer ofTuna, and its parent, H.J. Heinz and Company , is the world’s leading food processing company.”“The State also acknowledges the commitment of South Seas to the policy of domestication ofdistant water fishing vessels by way of priority purchase of Tuna from Papua New Guineancitizen owned vessels owned by Papua New Guinean citizen companies.”“The State acknowledges that in view of high initial capital expenditure involved, South Seaswill be granted the necessary incentives similar and comparable to but no less than those grantedto other similar projects within the domestic industry of Papua New Guinea.”P31: The Company shall in accordance with the Business Development Plan, encourage local andother PNG citizens wishing to establish businesses providing goods and Services to the Projectduring Operations, provided that the Company shall not be obliged or called upon to grant or lendmoney to any PNG citizens or any local enterprises.”“The State shall not promulgate or apply environmental standards to the Company that are, whenviewed objectively, more onerous than those that govern and regulate environmental conduct andstandards for the Industry in general under the waste water quality effluent standards; under the62
Water Resources Act (Chapter No. 205) or under the air quality emission standards provided bythe Australian Environmental Protection Authority.”“The State and the Company will agree to a base line environmental assessment of the historicaldamage to the Project Site immediately after the Company has concluded preliminary soil andwater site tests and prior to the Company’s commencement of construction activities on theProject Site (the “Site Assessment”.) The Company shall not be responsible for any historicalcontamination and environmental risk, and assumes no liabilities arising from or caused byexisting environmental conditions and defects on the Project Site, which arte set forth in the SiteAssessment. The Company shall assume the cost of incremental damage to the Project Site, ifany, arising from the implementation and Operations of the Project above the conditions set forthin the Site Assessment.”3. SST LandAs has become customary (following the Environmental Planning Act 1978) in resourcedevelopment projects, the Provincial Government paid K115,000 in 1982 to the Kreer villagers(as Kreer development Corporation and its Chair Peter Komie) as landowners for damages causedby PNG Harbours Board to build the wharf at the site.Petrus Sagom, Project Officer for the Office of the PM, says that all stakeholders including thelandowners were consulted initially and all were very supportive. Despite the land issues/disputeslandowners from both Meni and Kreer were involved/consluted in the initial planning.In an article in the Post-Courier at the time, reporter Angwi Hruehwazi notes: “TransportMinsiter Mr. Neville Bourne yesterday hand-delivered a K115,000 cheque to Kreer Villagers andtold them not to waste it on beer.”A 27 August 1996 letter from Elias Jessen at the ESPG’s Division of Land Mobilization Divisionto Philip Jerry Teresang, of Kreer Village, reads as follows:Dear Sir:RE: POSSIBLE TRANSFER OF PART OF PORTION 124 (11.8ha) TO TRADITIONALLANDOWNERSAbove refers to claims raised by Kreer landowners led by:1. Philip jerry Teresang2. Benedict Maira3. Michael Wais KarahaThat the portion of land currently undeveloped and directly adjacent to the existing facilitiesof the PNG Harbours Board at the southern end towards the coastline (see attached site plan)be transferred to them.Theirs refer that [sic] they’d desire to take possession of the said land in part to possiblydevelop the site to cater for another Local Stevedoring Firm and a Warehouse shed.However, records held at office shpws [sic] that PNG Harbours Board is the owner of leaseportion and that, I have adviced [sic] the landowners concerned on same to further liase with63
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‘development’ projects will be
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whole concept of MSY; the problem o
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Most of us here are very unfortunat
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The husband of the woman employed a
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Thomas Nigints was one of the few p
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Did SST place FADs in the sea?The c
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doing it, it’s going to be over o
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Landowners are also deeply disturbe
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places or settlement where they are
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in the revenue, so when the opportu
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And as soon as they’d finished th
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There is no legal case as yet with
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owns the land legally and therefore
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There is still need to recruit more
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In regard to the production, by the
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The company invited interested peop
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strategy is very well used by forei
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employees and those whose work requ
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The present Human Resource Manager
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working gear? In my section I wear
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working for a whole first week with
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Serah from Manam island, married wi
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stret long mipela ol mama husait I
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The supervisors in the plant/engine
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The color of the sea has changed. F
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Donald Jacob, Catrans fuel distribu
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Kapmandu Service station. Did South
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Three women involved with roadside
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export processing zones and then in
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When we asked if this meant sportin
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then men’s. Usually they’re exc
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The WWF consultant also notes that
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of a company like SST cannot be pla
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East Sepik Governor Arthur Somare s
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The cost of the project is between
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The National Shipping Page, 1.6.04W
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that have similar fish factory set-
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Infofish website : PNG: Tuna export
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Did your application form ask you a
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Do you know whether the Provincial
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4. Human Resources registerees, Kew
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Under Spin-Off Business Activities
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Finally, Honourable Ministers, Memb
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The adverse non-immune (toxic) and
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low income) will have an impact in
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ed and pink plastic roses are every
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Tuna fisheriesThe management system
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Programme is expanding this program
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This office recommends that, since
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commercial industry still deny any
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REPORTER: If you come and you put t
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Berman, M. 1997. Faust, the First D
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