Queen's birthday was celebrated all over PNG yesterday. Though it was public holiday, the temporary Member of Parliament for Raicoast Open was at Bongu village in the Raicoast area of Madang Province. He was talking to the people about the urgency for the people of Raicoast to really reconsider their position of preventing the Ramu Nickel Mine from dumping its waste into the sea.
This was another attempt by the National Alliance (NA) led government to try and talk to people in dropping the peoples' current court case. NA tried the same tricks last week by sending the Prime Minister to come and talk to all landowners including those from Raicoast but the Raicoast block would not give in. The Prime Minister also talked to the Governor of Madang but he is powerless, he can not do much as everything now hinges on the people of Raicoast.
The people of Raicoast's local Deep Sea Tailings Placement (DSTP) Campaign has now resulted in the amendment of the Environment Act which is now a nation-wide struggle. NA finds it very difficult now to contain the situation because people in Madang, Oro and Morobe and other provinces are now staging protests and are petitioning the government to revoke changes to the Act.
This is now a beginning of NA cracking and collapsing. The 2012 election is around the country, NA is in trouble.
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