PNG provincial Governor upset at private armed security for LNG talks

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Updated April 27, 2009 15:14:21

Lawyers from Papua New Guinea's Government, Exxon-Mobil and landowners from the southern Highlands have been meeting on Monday in Port Moresby, trying to break a legal deadlock over a planned 11-billion US dollar Liquified Natural Gas project. Meanwhile, about seven hundred people are in East New Britain at the moment, waiting for the legal process to end, allowing talks on the so-called "Benefit Sharing Agreement" to begin. Those talks are also the subject of controversy for not only being held on an island a thousand kilometres from the proposed project site, but also due to the heavily armed private security patrolling the area.


Presenter Paulus Kombo

Speaker: East New Britain Provincial Governor Leo Dion

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