Gas turbines at Hides turned on again
Tue Aug 25, 2009 12:00pm
Gas turbines at the Hides Gas Project in the Komo District of the new
Hela Province are back in operation.
This follows compensation demands by landowners forcing the shutdown
of the Hides Gas project.
Provincial Police Commander Superintendent, Jimmy Onopia who
travelled to the project site on Friday said the turbines were back in
operation on Saturday, supplying gas generated electricity to the huge
Porgera Gold Mine in the Enga province after talks were held with the
landowners..
Joe Kerema reports from Mendi, the landowners shutdown the gas
turbine generating electricity demanding K500m from the Department of
Petroleum and Energy and Oil Search.
The landowners from Pina Village outside the Hides Petroleum
Development License Area, had alleged that they have not been
compensated in any form, by Oil Search and the Department of Petroleum
and Energy, for the past 19 years, since the electricity and
processing plants were established.
They are demanding K500m illegal occupation and use of the Pina Clan
Customary land outside the PDL-1 License Area. |
