These conferences and mass actions have several common calls: a moratorium on mining in the country, to scrap the current Philippine Mining Act and to pursue a genuine pro-environment and pro-people mining policy in the country.
Read more →More Northern Mindanao issues here. Forty leaders of the United Church of Christ in the Philippines yesterday called on the government to immediately stop all mining operations in the country, calling it “blatantly unethical, unjust, and senseless.” “Destructive mining,” reads a UCCP statement, “causes dislocation of livelihood of the people,
Read more →Casiño bats for new mining law, says ‘fair mining policy’ a pipe dream under existing Mining Act Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño, author of the People’s Mining Bill (House Bill 4315) today expressed doubt that President Benigno Aquino’s much awaited executive order (EO) on mining would be able to reform
Read more →Prepared by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) for the Northern Luzon Mining and Human Rights Summit Baguio City, December 13-15, 2011 Introduction In the Philippine Development Plan (PDP) 2011-2016 of the Aquino administration, mining has been identified as one of the priority areas that have the “highest growth potentials and
Read more →News Release February 20, 2012 Reference: Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño, 09209035683 Casiño says mining industry needs more than an EO to reform Source: Alyansa Tigil Mina Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño, author of the People’s Mining Bill (HB 4315) and bill on Mining Zones (HB 4726), today expressed doubt
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