The Peer Review Team noted that the targets set by PNG appear overly challenging, given the current low starting point and PNG’s economic conditions. Furthermore, the feasibility of these targets are unable to be properly determined given the lack of thorough resource assessment. While a number of energy policies has since been developed to work towards the targets, stronger government commitment is necessary to drive these draft policies to implementation.
The Project will expand the cargo handling capacity of Lae port, improve the livelihood of those directly or indirectly affected, and reduce the incidence of HIV/AIDS in Lae.
In urban areas, responsibility for providing piped water and sewerage services in the nation’s capital, Port Moresby, lies with Eda Ranu, and for the remaining provincial and district towns with Water PNG (formerly the PNG Water Board). Service provision to these areas are estimated to be 89% access to safe water (little change from 87% in 1990), and 57% access to safe sanitation (down from 89% in 1990)1. Access to services in urban areas struggle to keep up in the face of rapid urban population expansion.
These are the findings from one preliminary and one main patrol along the Fly and Ok Tedi Rivers, surveying villagers on their level of understanding Ok Tedi Mining Ltd.’s (OTML) Community Mine Continuation Agreements (CMCAs). These agreements were signed by village representatives in 2000 as a means of binding local communities to the ongoing operation of the mine and to limit their abilities to pursue compensation for damages from OTML, and the mine’s obligation to pay them damages. A few people signed these for the majority of the villages circumstances.