Conference renews push for Peoples’ Mining Bill
By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com
Sidebar: John Arcilla, actor, environmentalist attends Peoples’ Mining Conference
MANILA – “A hundred years after exporting our precious timber, have
we become rich?” This is the question Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond
Palatino threw to the participants of the 3rd Peoples Mining Conference
happening until today in Tagaytay City.
The conference has drawn nearly 200 environmentalists from all over
the Philippines who, in an earlier regional sharing of mining updates,
have already detailed how, on the contrary, most ordinary citizens are
becoming poorer and more miserable with every operation of huge mining
corporations because of massive resource extraction in their midst.
Most lament how, for a pittance or nothing, they are left to contend
with the damages to their sources of livelihood caused by denuded
mountains and forests while huge corporations are repatriating billions
of dollars in profits, Rep. Palatino, and earlier that day Bayan Muna
Rep. Teddy Casiño and Gabriela Women’s Party Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan,
were talking to an audience who is evidently already eager for an
alternative law that would correct the disastrous Mining Act of 1995. In
fact, the alternative mining policy coauthored by the progressive party
list groups in Congress “is not just a proposal of the said partylist
groups,” said Palatino. House Bill 4315, or the Peoples Mining Bill,
he said, “is a product of broad consultations in many regions, and
through this, it embodies peoples’ aspirations in how mining can benefit
the people.”.... MORE
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