“Excess gas” to be released to make power, Mr Marape? How generous (NOT!)

By Mangi Souths

What kind of bullcrap is coming out of the mouth of James Marape now?  This fat fellow is very wrong that Hela has been without electricity since the early 1990’s when Hides gas field was opened up to supply Pogera.   There has been generator power in Tari off and on.   The issue is that the power lines from Hides to Pogera went past Tari all these years not one person in government said to the operator of Hides and Pogera that this was unacceptable.  People of Tari and Hela first before Pogera profits.   Those who neglected this issue include you, James Marape!  How many times have you been in Tari since you became MP and it did not come into your mind how unfair the situation is about Pogera getting first priority and the people of Hela no priority to use this electricity?  Are you only now making this discovery or too worried about putting more money in your pockets to make it a priority for action.  Isn’t this why we have the power shortage in the first place? Politician brain closed to logical ideas offered by the people for so long, then when it enters the idea takes years to germinate in the politician head and by the time it comes out the problem has gone from bad to worse.

What is these words you are using, fat James, that Exxon-Mobil has now agreed to free up some “excess gas” to be used to produce electricity for Hela, Kutubu and Port Moresby. What is meant by “excess gas” and if it is excess  why does Exxon Mobil have to give permission?   Gas has being burnt off and totally wasted in the Kutubu and Moran oil wells since the 1990s.  So much “excess gas” burnt off by now while you were having parties in Moresby, completely wasted and nothing to show for it, because Kutubu landowners were never paid gas royalties when all that gas was coming up with the oil before the gas project.  Where have you been, fat James?   If it is excess, why does Exxon Mobil have to free it up?  You are making no sense!!!!

Worse yet, your statement to the newspapers made it sound like you were Exxon Mobi’s lap dog. You said “We are thankful that Exxon Mobil through discussions with our PM has given an indication to free up a small excess gas to set up a power plant here in Tari, in Kutubu as well as in Port Moresby to meet some of the current electricity deficiencies we have so when that comes on board hopefully we fill in the gaps”.   

Who is the boss in this country fat James, is it Exxon Mobil or the PM?  Why does the PM have to beg for excess gas which rightfully belongs to the people of Hela?   You forgot to mention one very important thing or maybe you left it out on purpose.  Will PNG have to pay for this gas back to Exxon Mobil, or will the PNG government deal straight with the landowners and pay them royalties.  Is Exxon Mobil going to make profit from this unwanted excess gas off the backs of the people of PNG?
How absolutely pathetic that we have to beg and plead to get a small amount of “excess” of our own resources to use, and have to beg the giant multinational corporation to give us the scraps they don’t want.   Let us not forget that Exxon Mobil, the largest company in the world,   In 2007 it made the largest profit in the history of the world, $40.6 billion (which is about K168,000,000,000).  That is not income, that is pure profit.  In 2013, its profit was $32.5 billion or K93,000,000,000.  Just last year’s profit was more than 7 times our entire government’s budget for 2013. 

This is not a company that helps local people or gives anything away for free. It is a monster that bosses prime ministers and countries around so why don’t you just admit that fat James, and stop acting like Peter O’Neill has any other option but to tell Exxon Mobil yessah masta, yessah masta.  

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