Pacific Media Watch

17 October 2011

AUDIO: PNG's fire hidden under the ground

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A shaman, or witchdoctor, leads a rally in Madang. Photo: Johnny Blades / RNZI
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Broadcast on Radio NZ's Insight programme on 16 October 2011 - PNG Resources (duration: 27′25″)

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PORT MORESBY (Radio NZ Insight / Pacific Media Watch): Papua New Guinea is experiencing an unprecedented resources boom with a liquified natural gas project  the largest development.            

But even before production starts, there is major discontent in the Highlands region over the gas project and the threat it poses to a way of life the people there have known for centuries.

In this Insight programme, Radio New Zealand International's Johnny Blades goes to PNG to ask what kind of change  the resources boom could bring and  who is benefitting?

View more images from Johnny Blades's reporting  in PNG

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