“The Mines and Geosciences Bureau will play its role in this callousness by further ignoring the impunity of large-scale miners in Mindanao and elsewhere in the Philippines, to perpetuate the lie of peace and economic development in the mining industry.”
BY LISA ITO Bulatlat A four-person panel of independent experts recently scrutinized the basis of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR’s) for allowing the resumption of full commercial operations of the Lafayette mine in Rapu-Rapu, Albay and found it “unscientific, haphazard, and fraught with technical loopholes” at the very least. The panel was…
Through a resolution, the seven commissioners of the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) have formally granted to the Balatoc sub-tribe of Kalinga the priority right to develop and exploit the natural resources located in their ancestral domain at Balatoc, Pasil, Kalinga. The priority right covers the mineral land which was once covered by the…