13 September 2012
I feel the necessity to respond to a letter to the editor of the Post Courier entitled Fishing will not be affected. It was written by Mel Togolo Country Manager Nautilus Minerals.
You might note that the words false report have not been used because of my respect for Mr Togolo.
He was the only person ever to give a large donation to AIDS Holistics out of his own pocket when he worked for another mining company.
He has written that there will be no harm to fishing as the site is 30 kms from the coast line. He writes of the distance from coral reefs.
The objection is about damage to the blue water fish. The young tuna rely on the nutrients from the Sepik and Ramu Rivers.
There is a massive possible damage to be done to the Magadus Square and coast line from the mining up the Ramu and Sepik Rivers, Ramu Nico deep water waste disposal and the Nautilus deep sea mining.
There has been such a fuss over the Ramu Nico waste that we neglect to note that Marengo is a gold mine that will pour poisonous waste into the Ramu River.
It is not well known that Panguna mined gold which explained the poisons in the Jaba River. The gold was secretly shipped out.
Noah Musingku the pyramid shyster claimed to have taken control of the barrels of gold as the basis of his new Bougainville kingdom.
Independent reports refer to a locked room of barrels of gold scraped from the machine rollers crushing the copper ore.
It is not well known that Panguna mined gold which explained the poisons in the Jaba River. The gold was secretly shipped out.
Noah Musingku the pyramid shyster claimed to have taken control of the barrels of gold as the basis of his new Bougainville kingdom.
Independent reports refer to a locked room of barrels of gold scraped from the machine rollers crushing the copper ore.
Then there is the mining up the Frieda River. All rivers in the Sepik province flow to the sea. Poisons will end up in the Sepik regardless of the much publicized solid land fill.
Then there is the open sea mining of Nautilus. If gold is mined, there will be poison flowing directly into the sea. Will the refining be done at sea? It will never be monitored.
Within 10 to 50 years, the sea off the Sepik coast will be degraded. The tuna industry will have died 20 years before when the EU identified pollutants in the tissues of tuna caught.
Read the first report below on what the past Minister for Fisheries Mr Semri had to say on the Magadus Square in 2009 and loss of EU markets. Please click:
MAGADUS SQUARE TUNA BREEDING
DEEP SEA MINING IN MAGADUS SQUARE
FILIPINO CONCERN ON MINING AND
WILL MINING INDUSTRY DESTROY
BABY FISH DIE AT FEEDING TIME
We are talking of billions of tons of waste over a long period of time. The currents will carry waste across the Magadus Square and into the deltas of the Ramu and Sepik Rivers.
Preserving Papua New Guinea's Crocodiles - EM TV
Read the first report below on what the past Minister for Fisheries Mr Semri had to say on the Magadus Square in 2009 and loss of EU markets. Please click:
MAGADUS SQUARE TUNA BREEDING
DEEP SEA MINING IN MAGADUS SQUARE
FILIPINO CONCERN ON MINING AND
WILL MINING INDUSTRY DESTROY
BABY FISH DIE AT FEEDING TIME
We are talking of billions of tons of waste over a long period of time. The currents will carry waste across the Magadus Square and into the deltas of the Ramu and Sepik Rivers.
Preserving Papua New Guinea's Crocodiles - EM TV
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9 Aug 2012 – Men and women the world over fly in to PNG to see
them perform. Who are ... The East Sepik River is one of the
largest unpolluted rivers in the ...
This EM-TV report is totally inaccurate. East Sepik is near the estuarine
lowlands close to the mouth.
This EM-TV report is totally inaccurate. East Sepik is near the estuarine
lowlands close to the mouth.
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polluted the Ok Tedi River and adversely impacted fish populations in
the Fly River.
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