Gulf Landowners to sue ExxonMobil
Post Courier GULF Provincial Government says it will sue the State and the developer of PNG LNG Gas project ExxonMobil for more than two billion US dollars for what they claim to be failings in an Environmental Impact Study on the areas that will be directly affected by the project. In a news conference yesterday Gulf Governor Havila Kavo said the environmental study funded by the developer had not taken into account the negative impact this large scale project would bring to his people, especially the destruction to the marine life along the 400 kilometres from the Kikori Rriver and along the Gulf coastline where the gas pipeline is planned to be laid under the seabed. Mr Kavo decided to take this course of action after engaging a locally based environment company (Chem Clean Environmental Services) to undertake further study and to review and verify the EIS report. The environmental review and verification of the EIS report has been finalised and was officially presented to the Gulf