07-05-2013, 01:35 AM
Very important point from the presentation:
"The Act details a quite specific process by which the Government must identify landowners and then negotiate what is called in the Act a Development Agreement, but which for this Project is called a Benefits Sharing Agreement
The Project is not a formal participant in this process although we are obviously actively engaged. The analogy used in PNG is that the Project gives the Pig to the Government and then the Government and landowners must decide how the pig is carved and distributed."
Some would have you believe that this is 100% project developer responsibility. Not true, and Duma sad back in March that this process of LO identification for EA is "complete" and had been conducted by the PNG University. These reports of LOs wanting to meet with Exxon and IOC show THEIR lack of understanding and it's up to the government to deal with this issue.