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Mindanao lumad, green groups blame Aquino’s mining policies for devastation wreaked by typhoon Pablo

Mindanao lumad, green groups blame Aquino’s mining policies for devastation wreaked by typhoon Pablo

By MARYA SALAMAT
Progressive groups in Mindanao describe the devastation caused by typhoon Pablo as “an environmental apocalypse not simply caused by nature’s wrath but by the Aquino government continuing puppetry to foreign mining interests and the government’s greed and corruption in general.”

Read also: DENR hand in degrading environment, human rights as dirty as the military’s – IP and green groups

| Dec 8, 2012

Mining in Negros Occidental, a microcosm of the impact of mining in the whole country

Mining in Negros Occidental, a microcosm of the impact of mining in the whole country

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO and RONALYN V. OLEA
Do mining companies really bring about development? Do they generate sufficient employment to uplift the people from poverty? Do they practice ‘responsible mining,’ as they claim to be doing, to protect the environment? These are the very same questions the International Fact-Finding and Environmental Mission did seek to answer as the team members visited and conducted dialogues in the northern and southern parts of Negros Occidental.

| Nov 29, 2012

Canadian mining
Canadian PM Harper met by protest of environmental groups

Canadian PM Harper met by protest of environmental groups

By MARYA SALAMAT
‘If Harper truly respects the Filipino people’s sovereignty, he should be instrumental in the immediate pullout of Canadian mining corporations. We ask him to ‘mine his own business,’ if their capital will not benefit our communities and be detrimental to our ecological integrity and community welfare.’ – Kalikasan

See also: Open letter of Filipino groups in Canada to Canadian PM Harper

| Nov 11, 2012

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