The Office of the President has finally intervened to force the Department of the Environment to issue the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) to Xstrata’s Tampakan mine. This is despite the fact that no new information has arisen; those with power and connections to money merely want to trump due process. All of this is happening while the area around the mine site dissolves into further violence because of the project.
See http://www.minesandcommunities.org/article.php?a=12143&l=1.