Is Israel’s LR Group Making Investigation Of Their Activities in Papua New Guinea More Difficult?

By Former Journalist

Intellectual Papua New Guineans with access to the internet who have been trying to learn more about the mysterious LR Group of Israel, which is tight with the O’Neill government on many fronts, will find several obstacles thrown onto their path.

All along it was easy to mis-associate LR Group’s name with the multinational insurance corporation Lloyds Registry, which also appears on the internet as LR Group.   Lloyd’s has nothing to do with the Israeli LR Group.   Lloyd’s insures projects and facilities in many countries, including many projected related to power generation.   Lloyd’s Registry web site is at www.lr.org, with their PNG business handled by its Cairns office.  Many pages connected with the insurer will come up when googling for information on the Israeli LR Group, including web pages discussing power generation projects.   Don’t confuse the two companies as our politicians may be doing when they support LR Group without being clear that they have no capacity to run a national power grid or construct dams and hydropower facilities.   

A more recent name confusion that looks intentional has appeared the past couple weeks in the National and Post Courier newspapers. The stories have been referring to the LR Group as El Al.   Now it is supposedly El Al that’s making agricultural industry in Southern Highlands and El Al that is going to build the hydro project in SHP. 

Google El Al to learn more about this company doing the agricultural industrial complex project and   you’ll get plenty of information on Israel’s flagship air carrier which is the real El Al.  El Al Airlines has nothing whatsoever to do with LR Group, but how many recreational websurfers will bother to figure that out?   Instead, they may assume that the Israeli airline is now expanding to agriculture and hydro projects!   


On the other hand,  if you know that this Israeli company is actually called LR Group and that’s what you google,  already on the second page of links you will see one of the pngblogs investigative articles on LR Group.   Immediately, you’d start learning the other side of the story than what the newspapers are telling us.  You’ll start learning about their lack of capacity, their many announcements of projects that never seem to go anywhere throughout the world, their land grabbing projects in different African countries and their nonsustainable projects in Angola where the projects immediately collapse when handed over to the Angolan government for localisation.  You’ll find out the company hardly exists in Israel despite that being its base of operation.  You’ll read comments from former employees of LR Group indicating that it is a very secretive organisation.  You see, you learn a great deal about LR Group if you know its real name.  Better to call it El Al here in PNG? 

Added to all that sometime within the last month, the LR Group web site (www.lr-group.com) suddenly went blank with no prior announcement.  The site is not offline.  It’s content has been removed.   Whoever blanked out this website, which is fairly obscure and would not normally generate frequent visits from the Google search engine computers, also made sure that the Google cache of the web pages also would be blanked out so that no one could go through the site and retrieve information that had been on the website before it went blank.  Blanking out the Google cache of any web site so that the information is no longer retrievable in any way through Google can be done by first removing the web page content, then submitting the web site and pages URL addresses directly to Google.    All this took some effort by someone at LR Group.

The conclusion is that we’re neither dealing with a respectable company nor a very stable one.   A real company would never blank out their web site but keep it running constantly because a respectable company wants itself seen by a reliable, informative and attractive web site that is always on line.   

Understanding all this, the question is why Peter O’Neill so determined that this LR Group now going under the name of El Al be given the ownership of PNG Power Ltd so they can call the shots on our power bills for many years to come.   Their competence is questionable in this area to say the least.   Once in control they can cover up any of their incompetencies by jacking up our rates or abandoning the whole mess back to the government and letting us taxpayers foot the bill.   This is a disaster in the making.

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