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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Killing of anti-mining Italian priest condemned by environmental activists
Philippines: Details of the Tampakan project challenged
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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Protests at Philippine mining conference
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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The aftermath of another mining disaster in the Philippines
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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Battle lines drawn over Xstrata’s Mindanao copper mine
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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No to mining in Palawan
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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Activists promote more alternative mining legislation in the Philippines
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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Philippine mining falters in the face of civil society opposition
Recent figures show the mining industry in the Philippines is failing to match its revenue targets. The reasons for this include the fact that an increasing number of local government units are looking to ban …
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More violence at Xstrata’s Philippine project
Once again there has been a violent incident at Xstrata’s Tampakan copper-gold project over the Christmas holiday period. This time security operatives, working for an affiliate of UK-based Securicor, have been injured in an armed …
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Philippines copper company hits AIM
Copper Development Corporation has listed on London’s Alternative Investment Market, having raised £40.7m to develop its copper mining project in the Philippines.
See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/industry/mining/8197770/Philippines-copper-company-hits-AIM.html.…
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Protests against BHP Billiton at Australian AGM
Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton held its Australian AGM in Perth, Western Australia, on Tuesday 16 November.
The company came in for strong criticism on a number of issues and was presented with an alternative annual …
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Further opposition to Xstrata project in Philippines
Environmental groups maintain opposition despite the government’s active promotion of the Tampakan mining project.
The groups headed by Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) and Defend Patrimony! Alliance said that among the bases …
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