Mining for whom?
By BENJIE OLIVEROS
Bulatlat.com
One could not help but see the irony in this week. Baguio city
hosted the 58th staging of the Mine Safety and Environment week from
November 8-10. And it was no small affair. The gathering was attended
by seven envoys: Australian ambassador Roderick Richard Campbell Smith,
Brazilian ambassador Alcides Gastao Rostand Prates, Chilean ambassador
Roberto Mayorga, South African ambassador Agnes Nyamandre-Pitso, Swiss
ambassador Ivo Sieber, British ambassador Stephen Lillie and Chinese
ambassador Liu Jianchao.
Before the opening on November 8, the Philippines Australia Business
Council, Australia Philippines Business Council, Australian-New Zealand
Chamber of Commerce, Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the
Chamber of Mines of the Philippines came up with a “Consolidated
Position Paper on Mineral Resource Development” urging the Philippine
government to act decisively on the ban on open pit mining and the
general ban on all mining activities being passed by local government
units in different areas in the country.
After the Chamber of Mines issued a separate statement expressing
concern over the ban in Zamboanga del Norte – which affected its two
members the TVI Resource Development (Phils.) Inc. and Philex Mining –
TVI Resource Development went to court to seek for a temporary
restraining order or preliminary injunction against the implementation
of the ban in Zamboanga del Norte..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/11/11/mining-for-whom/
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marami nang nakakahalata na pabor sa large.scale, extractive na pagmimina itong si "pangulong" abs.
"This is where the irony lies: mining, of the large-scale, extractive kind could never be identified with safety and the environment. According to environmental groups, November 8, the start of the Mining Safety and Environment week activities is even the anniversary of the mine tailings spillage of Maricalum Mining in Negros Occidental in 1982, the first recorded mining disaster in the Philippines.
"Nobody, not even the Aquino government, could deny the destruction and wastage left by Maricalum Mining in Negros Occidental, Marcopper mining in Marinduque, the La Fayette in Rapu Rapu island, Benguet mining in Itogon, among others."
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