Gov’t mulls Laguna Lake for offshore mining
By Fernan J. Angeles 03/04/2012The government is seriously studying the possibility of putting in place a considerably big mining operation in an island off Laguna de Bay, but Malacañang does not seem aware that the Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau is cooking something that runs against what the administration has been espousing.
Reacting to a Daily Tribune query, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said that he personally called on the Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau (MGB) which denied “any mining operation in progress at the Talim Island.”
However, the MGB (according to Lacierda) did not make any denial on a plan that has been on the agency’s drawing board since Sept. 2010 on allowing the Explosive Consultation and Application (ECA) Philippines Inc., to explore some 1,366 hectares of Talim Island for basalt and filling materials....... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
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