A Lawsuit Promises Justice for Rio Tinto’s Mining Disaster in Bougainville. Some Say It’s Nothing But a Cash Grab
The Panguna mine made a fortune but left war and pollution in its wake. A new lawsuit backed by anonymous…
Category: Environment
Climate Change Threatens Fisheries Industry, Says Solomons Deputy Prime Minister
by Lamantha Lano The 17 member countries of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) were called on to see the critical…
Lack of log export monitoring costs Solomons Islands millions of dollars in lost revenue
by Gina Maka’a Solomon Islands has lost millions of dollars in log export revenue over the last 15 years due…
The Real Cost of Mining in Solomon Islands
by Charley Piringi The Rennell landowners are questioning the government again about the status of their royalty payments for the…
Isabel Royalty Payments are now at the Central Bank
by Charley Piringi Royalty Payments for six shipments of nickel from Isabel province made last year are withheld at the…
Combating illegal fishing to secure sustainable fisheries future for PacificÂ
Combatting IUU fishing to promote sustainable fisheries across the Pacific is a key outcome of Operation Tui Moana 2024 (OPTM24),…
Resource Owners Demand Further Consultation on New Mining BillÂ
by Charley Piringi Resource owners have demanded that the Mineral Resources Bill 2023 be deferred to allow for further consultations…
‘Win-Win: A Company That Fails to Live up to its Name’
by Charley Piringi “The name ‘Win-Win’ was all in the philosophy that both win. The company wins, and the landowner…
Lupa Vangunu: A community standing strong for the forests and their futureÂ
For more than a decade, logging companies have been trying to win the timber rights and approvals to log the…
Strengthening coastal resilience in Tulagi
Neighbours from the Diocese of the Anglican Church of Melanesia in the Central Province of Solomon Islands in Tulagi island…