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| What's left of the Marcopper earth dams. Screen grab from Google earth |
"I recently met with a group belonging to the Legal Rights and Natural Resource Center composed of lawyers, engineers, doctors and computer experts who visited sites of the Marcopper disaster in Mogpog and Sta. Cruz. They are representing a new group of complainants from Mogpog seeking redress from Barrick Gold. Their findings are chilling and scary. They predicted that another major disaster with overwhelming destruction from what is left of the mine, is not a matter of 'IF', it is a matter of 'WHEN'. Even a small temblor or a major typhoon may cause the earthen dam to give way. We have been sounding the alarm bell for years. Are we waiting for another Tacloban to happen before our officials could do the right thing and prevent and prepare for a disaster that will surely come...?"
- Ching Jao-Manalo, President's Report VIII,
Marinduque International is the executive council that executes and implements common projects of the Marinduque associations in the United States and Canada and the Middle East namely: The Marinduque Association of the Capital Area (MACA); Marinduque Association of Chicago, USA (MACUSA); Marinduque Association of Northern California (MANC); Marinduque Associiation of Southern California (MASC); the Marinduquenos of the Eastern Seaboard of America (MESA); and the Marinduque Cultural Society of Canada (MCSC); Marinduque Association of British Columbia (MABC); Marinduque Society of Texas and the Gulf States (MASTEGS); and Samahang Marinduqueno sa Kanlurang Saudi Arabia (SMKSA).
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