Save the Sepik - No Frieda River Mine
This video follows the steps of Save The Sepik campaigners who travel the Sepik river to bring awareness and collect the views of the people on the Frieda Mine.
"The River is not ours, it belongs to the future. We are only vessels of the Sepik Spirit that dwells to celebrate and protect it. We will guard it with our life".
This is a quote by Project Sepik founder Emmanuel Peni.
This is also the view of the Sepik river people of the mighty Sepik river, they are custodians charged to protect the river from enemies, foreign or domestic.
They know the destruction and demise that await them should the Frieda Mine proceed with its operations, and so have called for the total ban on the mine.
"The fight is not only for us at Save The Sepik and the Sepik River people whom we represent."
This is a fight for all of PNG, to demand our government to ban Frieda river mine and the Chinese owned mining company PanAust from destroying one of the world's greatest river systems. The Sepik River is one of the largest unpolluted freshwater systems in PNG and among the largest and most intact freshwater basins in the Asia Pacific, let us all protect it for our children and their children".
We do not want to see what happened to Jabba River, Ok Tedi, and Angabanga happens to the Mighty Sepik River.
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