Provincial board lifts ban on open pit mining in South Cotabato Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenings in the region.
DAVAO CITY – The Catholic Church and environment groups have decried the approval of the ordinance in South Cotabato lifting the controversial ban on open pit mining method in the province.
Residents protest against the proposed open-pit mining in South Cotabato. ( FIle photo courtesy of SAC Marb
COTABATO, Philippines (AFP): A Philippine provincial government has lifted a ban on open-pit mining, removing the final regulatory obstacle for a long-delayed copper and gold project in the country's restive south, a senior official said Monday (May 16).
Described by the late former Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Paz L. Lopez as an environmentally destructive project, the multibillion-dollar Tampakan Copper-Gold Project has finally seen the light of day after the biggest and final hurdle to starting the project has been removed. The Mines and Geosciences…
The Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI), a network of 236 Civil Society Organizations across the Philippines, hails the Provincial Development