Landowners back MP’s call for unity

The Mt Kare Management Company is in full support of the call for unity on the Mt Kare project by Lagaip Porgera MP Nixon Mangape. The company is appealing to all landowner groups to refrain from causing any disturbance to sabotage the work undertaken by Summit Development Limited. The exploration activity began in 1980 by CRA Minerals with four major landowner companies: the Kare Puga Development Corporation, the Mt Kare Management Company, Mt Kare Gold Resources and the Mt Kare Gold Development Corporation, originally representing the landowners of Mt Kare.

The chairman of the management company, Albert Aliable, has declared that these four major land owner companies are in full support of the exploration activity undertaken by Summit Development and are currently waiting to see the land investigation studies report and a declaration of the ownership of the SML area. According to the country manager of Summit Development Limited, George Niumataiwalu, when the report is published landowners from the SML area would be invited to work with the developer to move to the next stage of exploration which is to form the umbrella landowner company.

Mr Aliable explained to landowners within the Mt Kare area that the Government had used its powers to renew the EL 1093 license to Summit Development Limited; and there is no other person or landowner company who has that license to develop the Mt Kare project. “I would like to appeal to all new landowner companies to stop pretending they have the license EL 1093 stop misleading landowners and brainwashing them with false information to get their support to pursue their own vested interests,” said Mr Aliable. Mr Aliable believes that the Mt Kare Management Company has a legitimate reason to be the umbrella landowner company as the Heli Clan will be declared owners of the SML area according to historical facts and evidence.

“I want to once again appeal to the so-called new landowner companies and self-interested groups to stop misleading the landowners of Mt Kare by making media statements, claiming to be representing the landowners and soliciting support to sabotage the exploration activity undertaken by Summit Development Limited,” said Mr Aliable. The management company said it wants to work together with the state, the developer and other landowner companies and associations to speed up the exploration activity to see construction and production take place. “I do not want to see any conflict perpetrated by any self-interest group to disturb the good work undertaken by Summit Development Limited,” said Mr Aliable.