Frankglenstrata – the birth of another mining monster?
…over the environmental impacts of its operations on glaciers. In the Philippines it continues to develop the Tampakan copper mine despite massive local opposition, a lack of legal consent to…
New Philippine mining rules, but will anything change?
The Philippine Government has issued its new rules to implement the President’s Executive Order No. 79 on mining. Despite assertions that these will settle the issue of Xstrata‘s Tampakan project…
Xstrata seeks help from G4S!
The Tampakan mine in the Philippines, run by Xstrata subsidiary Sagittarius Mines Inc (SMI) is already such a focus for opposition that it has come under violent attack. Now SMI…
Xstrata still in trouble in the Philippines
…on Xstrata’s Tampakan project. Now, the UK-based Working Group on Mining in the Philippines (WGMP), which includes LMN member groups PIPLinks and the Society of St Columban, has written to…
Xstrata accused of responsibility for atrocities in Philippines
…ancestral lands. “There would be no violence if only the mining company respects the wish of the tribal members for them to abandon the Tampakan project,” Lariba said. See http://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2012/07/01/mining-firm-not-tribesmen-to-blame-for-atrocities-in-tampakan/….