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Duterte’s new mining order disastrous to environment groups
BY RAYMUND VILLANUEVA
President Rodrigo Duterte lifted the nine-year moratorium on new mineral agreements, earning warnings from various groups of further corporate plunder of the environment and more natural disasters.
Bayan Muna Representative Eufemia Cullamat said she is dismayed with Duterte’s decision that would most likely result in the worsening of the environmental crisis in the country.
“Instead of putting a stop to environmental destruction that causes disasters, he is allowing further exploitation of our natural resources,” Cullamat said.
By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News
Published April 15, 2021 11:59am President Rodrigo Duterte has lifted the nine-year ban on granting new mining agreements to maximize government revenues and stir economic growth. Duterte issued Executive Order (EO) 130, which provides that the government may enter into new mineral agreements, subject to compliance with the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 and other applicable laws, rules, and regulations. The ban was imposed by Duterte s predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, in 2012. In his EO, Duterte said the Philippines so far has tapped less than 5% of its mineral resources endowment. The EO tasked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to formulate the terms and conditions in the new mineral agreements that will maximize government revenues and share from production, including the possibility of declaring these areas as mineral reservations to obtain appropriate royalties, in accordance with existing laws, rules, and