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U. Postcourier " This is the start of the Bougainville Copper Agreement Review."
y GORETHY KENNETH
PLANS are now underway to establish a National Government’s Coordination Group to oversee the Bougainville Copper Agreement review process.
The Bougainville Copper Agreement review was as old as 1967 when it was initiated and no other reviews were made since then except for “slight negotiations” along the way. The BCA Review, if undertaken now will be a completely “new deal” as stated by the parties that would be involved in the negotiations.
The Coordination Group will be made up of the following representatives:
* Two representatives from the ABG
* Two representatives from the National Government
* Two representatives from the Panguna Landowners Association and
* One representative from the Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL)
This is from a brief from the Deputy Chief administrator for Bougainville Raymond Masono in his presentation to the Autonomous Bougainville Government Steering Committee together with the Panguna Management Consultative Committee in Buka last week.
The Group is expected, when set up to also cover the BCA Act which was also discussed including the legality of it (ACT) -the Panguna Landowners claimed it was now irrelevant and wanted a completely new deal.
The other issue discussed which the Group would take charge of was BCL’s request to the National Government to extend/renew the Special Mine Lease (SML) licence.
But the Panguna Management consultative Committee is now aware the National Government had allocated K2 million to oversee the BCA Review and other Panguna mine re-opening allocations and mine related matters.
This fund will cater for the landowner’s establishment, regional awareness, ABG/PLOA – BCA Secretariat and the PMCC works program (budget). There are already five of the sic mine leases registered by the mining division and they include Special Mine Lease (SML), Lower Tailing Lease (LTL), Upper Tailing Lease (UTL), Port Mine Access Road Lease (PMARL) and Uruawa/Rorovana Lease (URL and the Siokate Lease (Arawa Customary Land). All these issues should be the agendas for the National Coordination Group if setup by the Government. This is the start of the Bougainville Copper Agreement Review.
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