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    Tagged: Shwe gas

    Arakan Business Economy Environment Lead Story News

    Arakan petition calls for local control of resources

    An Arakanese civil society group says that 300,000 people in Arakan State have signed a petition calling for greater control over resource extraction in the impoverished region.

    Arakan Business Lead Story Natural resources News

    Kyaukphyu farmers spurn compensation, say CNPC trying to trick them

    Twenty-one local farmers spurn a compensation ceremony in Kyaukphyu, Arakan State, when they find that the event was being staged to conclude the matter without attempting to rectify damage to their fields.

    Energy Lead Story Natural resources News

    Maday islanders see the light

    Maday islanders now have access to four hours of electricity per day, after campaigning for compensation from the China National Petroleum Corporation.

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    Arakan Lead Story Natural resources News

    Maday islanders complain of broken promises on electricity

    Residents of Maday are complaining that they still have not been provided the 24-hour electricity service promised to them last year.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story Natural resources News

    Pipeline arson suspects charged in western Burma

    Seventeen labourers in Burma’s western Arakan State have been charged with arson, aggravated trespassing and abetting crime for alleged involvement in a fire at a relay station along the Shwe gas and oil pipelines in January.

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    EITI: Getting Burma rigged for extractive surge

    At its best, the EITI could temper irresponsible partners and federal misuse of funds. It could also add legitimacy to a windfall of investments in places and economies that many think are unprepared for rapid change.

    Lead Story News

    Minister says Shwe pipelines safe, ecofriendly, as fire erupts in Arakan

    The 800-km gas and oil pipeline corridor running from Burma’s western Arakan coast to China’s southern Yunnan province poses no threat to the environment or to nearby communities, according to Burmese Deputy Minister of Energy Aung Htoo.

    Environment Lead Story News

    Arakan CBOs demand halt to all natural resource extraction projects

    An umbrella group of political and civic Arakanese groups issue a statement demanding a halt to all natural resource extraction projects in Arakan state until a genuine federal system is implemented in Burma.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Ten jailed for protesting Shwe Gas project

    Ten local residents in Arakan state’s Kyaukphyu township were sentenced to three months in jail on Thursday for staging an unauthorised protest against a controversial China-backed gas pipeline.

    Business Environment Lead Story News

    Kyaukphyu lights up

    Kyaukphyu residents are now enjoying 24-hour electricity thanks to the Shwe Gas project, but locals in nearby Ann township say the pipeline sprung a leak which spewed fire last week.

    Arakanese call for a share of natural resources profits video

    Environment Lead Story Video

    Arakanese call for a share of natural resources profits

    A petition campaign led by the RNDP has been launched in Arakan state calling for an equitable distribution of benefits from the region’s natural resources.

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    Burma fails on natural resource governance: report

    Burma has the worst record on natural resource governance in the entire world, according to a new international study, which activists on Thursday described as a “warning” to global investors eyeing oil and gas deals in the country

    Politics

    Pipeline protestors face jail for ‘unlawful’ assembly

    Ten Arakanese activists, who face up to one year in jail for staging an “unlawful” protest against a controversial China-backed oil and gas pipeline, appeared in court in western Burma on Monday

    News Politics

    Police crack down on ‘unlawful’ gas pipeline protestors

    At least three people were detained and questioned by local authorities in Arakan state on Friday, for their alleged role in staging an unauthorised protest against the Chinese-backed Shwe Gas Pipeline

    News Politics

    Burma eyes ‘symbolic’ energy deals with the West

    A number of lucrative energy contracts are likely to be handed to Western firms in April, when the Burmese government is set to open a long-awaited bidding round for some two dozen off-shore oil and gas tenders

    Analysis

    The pipeline and its discontents

    Residents of Kyaukphyu in western Burma are becoming restless as the controversial Shwe Gas and Oil Project nears completion

    Environment News

    Pipeline, rubber plantation responsible for pollution

    Residents in Tenasserim division and northern Shan state are filing complaints against companies that they say are ruining their farmlands and rivers

    News Politics

    Chinese dam company warns of legal action

    Legal consequences may result from cancellation of Myitsone Dam owing to the agreements already made by Burmese government

    Business News Politics

    Govt minister promises full compensation for rail line

    Railways minister Aung Min claims evictees from a planned rail link to China will receive full compensation for their land

    Business News

    Work on Sino-Burma railway could start in December

    Govt minister says that work on high speed railway link from China could commence in December, connecting Arakan coast to Yunnan’s Kunming

    Business News Politics

    Ceremony held for controversial pipeline

    Ceremony held in Mandalay to celebrate welding commencement as locals fear for their livelihoods with worries over compensation

    Elections News Politics

    UN head admits ‘frustration’ towards elections

    UN chief, Ban Ki-moon has admitted that he has been ‘frustrated’ by his engagement with the military junta

    Business Environment News

    India approves gas buy as deportations loom

    Multi-million dollar investment in Burmese gas by India draws the ire of rights groups who protest that the project will cause mass relocation

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