"Madang Govt Sues Ramu Nico For K18b", 6 February 2020

The Madang provincial government and 13 landowners have sued Chinese company Ramu Nico for damages worth K18 billion and K1.6 million as special damages....

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The court will...be asked to order...:

...[A]...permanent injunction restraining the Defendant...from committing the said nuisance and negligence and to injure the Plaintiffs...in their use and enjoyment of their customary land and water rights that a permanent injunction restraining the Defendant from destroying the offshore environment in any way and from dumping waste and tailings into Astrolabe and Basamuk Bays...;

...[T]hat the Plaintiffs’ rights to the use and enjoyment of their customary land and water rights...have been breached and that they have suffered as a direct consequence of the Defendant’s dumping of tailings and toxic waste activity by the use of DSTP, the Refinery dusts and fumes as well as the slurry spillage;

...[T]hat the Defendant compensate and or pay damages...in the sum of K18 billion and alternatively, such compensatory damages referred to paragraph 690) be assessed;

...[T]hat the Defendant and the Madang province government...take remedial steps to clean the environment that had been contaminated by the activity of the Defendant and that such remediation costs, to be properly assessed by remedial experts, shall be paid by the Defendant; and

...[T]hat the Defendant pay the Madang provincial government K1.6 million as special damages forthwith.