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BP has committed itself to support local education for the next ten years in an area affected by its Tangguh liquefied natural gas project at Bintuni Bay in West Papua, Indonesia.
Education support is one of a wide range of services that BP has promised in its response to the sixth report by the Tangguh Independent Advisory Panel on the $5billion (£2.52bn) project to extract at least 14 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves lying under the bay. The report looks at the social and environmental impacts of the project.
Another of BP’s education commitments is to provide scholarships for Papuans to attend universities throughout Indonesia. BP’s response emphasizes: ‘We intend to increase this assistance gradually.’ The panel is asking the company to select students of practical disciplines such as energy, mining, technology, agriculture and fisheries.
In the affected villages BP is promising to install clean water systems, partly through harvesting rainwater.
Fishermen in the villages are to be provided with motors for their boats and farmers with agricultural equipment. BP has said it will conduct a survey in 2010 to assess whether the gas operations have reduced fish stocks.
The company has also published a guide to reducing the impact on marine life in the bay, including Sousa dolphins and turtles, and has designated one area as a boat-free dolphin zone.
BP hopes to develop the area by encouraging small firms and one-man bands to start operating. It says in its response to the report: ‘Clearly, this is an ambitious challenge, but one that we are committed to supporting in conjunction with the local government and other relevant stakeholders.’
It has assured the reporting panel that it will continue to review its social programme, and the next independent assessment is due this year.
In two or three years’ time there will be another survey to measure the success of the BP social programme and its sustainability
Education support is one of a wide range of services that BP has promised in its response to the sixth report by the Tangguh Independent Advisory Panel on the $5billion (£2.52bn) project to extract at least 14 trillion cubic feet of gas reserves lying under the bay. The report looks at the social and environmental impacts of the project.
Another of BP’s education commitments is to provide scholarships for Papuans to attend universities throughout Indonesia. BP’s response emphasizes: ‘We intend to increase this assistance gradually.’ The panel is asking the company to select students of practical disciplines such as energy, mining, technology, agriculture and fisheries.
In the affected villages BP is promising to install clean water systems, partly through harvesting rainwater.
Fishermen in the villages are to be provided with motors for their boats and farmers with agricultural equipment. BP has said it will conduct a survey in 2010 to assess whether the gas operations have reduced fish stocks.
The company has also published a guide to reducing the impact on marine life in the bay, including Sousa dolphins and turtles, and has designated one area as a boat-free dolphin zone.
BP hopes to develop the area by encouraging small firms and one-man bands to start operating. It says in its response to the report: ‘Clearly, this is an ambitious challenge, but one that we are committed to supporting in conjunction with the local government and other relevant stakeholders.’
It has assured the reporting panel that it will continue to review its social programme, and the next independent assessment is due this year.
In two or three years’ time there will be another survey to measure the success of the BP social programme and its sustainability
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