Efforts to bring the massive Tampakan copper-gold project to commercial phase suffered a major blow after the Department of Environment and Natural Resources rejected the proponent’s application for an environmental compliance certificate (ECC).
Documents obtained …
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Protesters storm Xstrata’s London HQ
Protesters’ account and comments at N30, corporate greed, Xstrata and the right to protest, http://occupylsx.org/?p=1755.
See also:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-15967800 and
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/30/occupy-activists-xstrata-hq-london
Xstrata’s Tampakan mine attacked by community in …
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“Today, Britain’s significance to the industry is as a centre for global mining – in terms of finance, technology and know-how. The City of London offers a wide range of financial services to the global …
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Following recent attempts to militarise mine sites, and associated killings, there has been a plethora of news stories on Philippines mining issues.
There is more fall-out from the murder of Fr. Fausto ‘Pops’ Tentorio, as …
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The murder by suspected paramilitary forces of Fr. Tentorio maybe related to his opposition to the Xstrata mining project in South Cotabato, the largest ever in Philippine history, with a staggering 10,000 hectares covering four …
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Environmental activists under the Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment condemned the recent killing of an Italian missionary active in opposing large-scale mining plunder, including by London-listed Xstrata, and advocating for indigenous people’s rights …
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The Xstrata-controlled Tampakan project has become one of the most contentious in the Philippines, and one that the Mines and Communities website has critiqued for several years.
There are many reasons for this – not least …
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The Philippine mining industry’s annual conference has just taken place in Manila.
As usual government officials and industry bigwigs queued up to praise the state of the industry. And – as usual – vocal protestors …
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Another landslide has tragically swept away small-scale miners in the Philippines, in the gold rich Compostela Valley on Good Friday.
Even as rescuers struggled through the mud, the military were destroying the miners’ houses to …
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Southeast Asia’s largest known unexploited copper and gold deposit lies in a remote mountain area just east of Tampakan, about 60km north of General Santos, the Philippines’ southernmost city.
London-listed Xstrata, the fourth-largest copper …
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The Save Palawan Movement has launched a “No to Mining in Palawan” signature campaign in the hope of putting an end to mining activities in Palawan, known as the Philippines’ Last Ecological Frontier. The campaign …
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Campaign groups in the Philippines now have two potential alternative mining laws being discussed by the country’s Congress, as a response to the constant concerns raised by civil society over the activities of mining companies. …
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