Comments on: Wetlands watchdog investigates PNG pollution

By: WWF buries wetlands pollution report | Reportage Online

WWF buries wetlands pollution report | Reportage Online — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:51:14 +0000

[...] November, Reportage revealed WWF Australia did not alert the Ramsar Convention to the report or original evide…, despite it being party to an international wetlands protection [...]

By: HereNow

HereNow — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:49:43 +0000

What about the permethrin treated clothes,and bed sheets and the wash water from that?(Plus the bottles of it lying around)

Someone needs to look into that!

By: HereNow

HereNow — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:49:00 +0000

What about the permethrin treated clothes,and bed sheets and the wash water from that?(Plus the bottles of it lying around)

Someone needs to look into that!

By: WWF buries wetlands pollution report | Reportage Enviro

WWF buries wetlands pollution report | Reportage Enviro — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 02:27:12 +0000

[...] November, Reportage revealed WWF Australia did not alert the Ramsar Convention to the report or original evide…, despite it being party to an international wetlands protection [...]

By: Aispypng

Aispypng — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:58:49 +0000

I used to work there. The organisation I was with, worked with the community and these was one of the issues that they brought up. Not directly to us but as part of conversation.
Some landowners worked with us as casuals, so they fed us with this kind of information.

I even asked and expatriate staff from Oil Search about this and he obviously denied it. But said that according to their professional and higly qualified environmental staff, this was a way the Lake sort of healed itself or changes itself or something like that. I knew what the answer was going to be anyway.

I even asked the WWF program manager at that time about this and he admitted that when they conducted their studies, they found that the lake was of course contaminated.
He also said he was worried as they were being funded by OSL and that they may loose their funding if this was revealed.

As said earlier, it’s sad that this has happenned and backs have been turned.

By: Aispypng

Aispypng — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:58:00 +0000

As said earlier, it’s sad that this has happenned and backs have been turned.

By: Psychotria

Psychotria — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:54:45 +0000

I have recently returned to Australia from Lake Kutubu (I was there for several weeks in November 2009). That OilSearch did not report a significant incident doesn’t greatly surprise me. Moro (where the airport is) appears to be a cesspool that is a disgrace to PNG. I mention Moro only because OilSearch appear to have significant sway there — I believe that all their employees land there and that all their transport helicopters fly out of there daily. Moro is also the location of the WWF headquarters for the area. For a company that is making a significant amount of money from the region, I feel that they should inject more back into the local economy.

In Oilsearch’s defence, though, I am not sure how an accident related to their operations affected Lake Kutubu. From what I saw, their operations are not exactly close to the lake (apart from Moro). The area is mostly limestone, so I guess that groundwater travels easily over many kilometres.

If an accident did occur then I believe that OilSearch should have been more open. I also think that WWF should have made more noise — to think that in Moro they didn’t know of the alleged incident is… crazy.

By: Psychotria

Psychotria — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:54:00 +0000

By: Pacific.scoop.co.nz » International wetlands body investigates Lake Kutubu pollution

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:47:54 +0000

[...] Lewellyn Young, senior regional advisor for Asia/Oceania of the Ramsar Convention Secretariat, told Reportage. “If there has been an incident, then the next step is for us to get assistance for that [...]