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| "NO" in COMPOSTELA VALLEY/MINDANAO |
Kalikasan PNE National Coordinator, Clemente Bautista said the current policies not only caused destruction and rights violations during the operations of mines, but also encouraged the abandonment of unrehabilitated mines. The decade-long case of the Marinduque people filed against Marcopper mining corporation, now owned by Canadian-owned Barrick Gold, for causing one of the country’s most severe mine spill disasters, was almost settled with a P20-million ‘take it or leave it’ deal that would have exonerated the company from causality. South Korean-owned Rapu-Rapu Minerals, which concluded its eight-year mining contract in the island of Rapu-Rapu in Albay, attempted to also leave without implementing the rehabilitation provision of its contract.
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| "NO" in PALAWAN |
“The attempts of Rapu-Rapu Minerals and Marcopper-Barrick Gold to skirt their responsibilities in rehabilitating their mine sites upon closure belie the claims of the mining industry lobby and national government that the mine operations in the country are socially and environmentally responsible. Let us also not forget how Philex Mining Corporation has weaseled its way out of its 20-million metric-ton tailings disaster last 2012 but has not fully rehabilitated Balog and Agno River and has not fully compensated all downstream communities they affected,” added Bautista.
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| "NO" in CAGAYAN |
Bautista said the various Green Flag Day actions across the country united in their calls for the repeal of both the Mining Act of 1995 and EO 79. He said that a new people’s mining policy should be ratified in order to reorient the mining industry towards ensuring needs-based utilization, environmental safety and people’s welfare in the objective of ensuring genuine land reform, agricultural modernization and national industrialization. ARKIBONG BAYAN
ALTERNATIVE LAW TO ADDRESS FLAWS IN MINNG ACT - LAWMAKER
Nueva Vizcaya Representative and House Deputy Speaker Carlos Padilla said in a privilege speech the enactment of an alternative mining law is needed to resolve the “glaring flaws” in Republic Act 7942, otherwise known as the Mining Act of 1995.
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| "NO" in NUEVA VISCAYA |
Padilla said despite being touted as a “world class mining law,” RA 7942 only “legitimized the plunder of our mineral resources, the destruction of our environment and displacement of communities” in the past 19 years.
He said it is high time lawmakers work on the passage of a new mining law in light of the growing negative public sentiment toward the industry because of various disasters involving large-scale mining operators.
“Congress [should] put premium in the human dignity of communities and biodiversity value of our country’s mineral resources. No less than an alternative minerals law will do this,” Padilla said.
The campaign against large-scale mining in Nueva Vizcaya has earned the backing of civil society groups and the local Catholic church, with Diocese of Bayombong Bishop Ramon Villena calling on residents to join and support anti-mining protests in the province. GMA NEWS
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| Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment at Mendiola |
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| Alyansa Tigil Mina in Mendiola |
