SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT
OP/ED Are conflicting interests at play here? That is the question we ask as we watch the Government move to deal with the problems at one LNG site in Hela. The problems at Hides 4 blew up on the previous Friday. The landowners moved in and stopped all work on the gas conditioning plant and other works. They demanded that a government team visit them and address them. Last week, we were told that the Prime Minister Sir Michael Somare appointed Foreign Affairs Minister, Don Pomb Polye, as the trouble shooter, to lead a delegation to Hides to talk to the landowners. Polye announced last Monday that he was taking a team in. He invited Petroleum and Energy Minister William Duma, Finance and Treasury Minister Peter O’Niell, other senior government ministers and all MPs from the Southern Highlands to go with him for the meeting. The objective of that mission was to negotiate for the immediate resumption of work at the project site and to find ways to address the landowner concerns. The Poly