By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY — “Why are the police guarding the interests of big mining companies? Instead of keeping peace and order— their mandate to serve and protect the people— they attacked and tried to break up our barricade as they...
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com MANILA -- Some 300 members of groups opposed to irresponsible mining, and residents from various provinces in Northern Luzon, held a rally in front of the offices of well-known mining corporations in Manila earlier this week...
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG NORTHERN DISPATCH BANGUED, Abra – Residents of Mankayan, Benguet who attended the Benguet, Abra, Mt. Province, Ilocos Sur (BAMPIS) Mining Summit held here expressed fears that the plan of Goldfields Far South East to build additional walls to...
By ALMA B. SINUMLAG NORTHERN DISPATCH BAGUED, Abra – “I am very glad to see many people here. It means that we are not the only ones fighting against corporate mining.” This is how Dominga Gaspar, member of the Barangay Council of Gambang, Bakun, Benguet, started...
By Alma B. Sinumlag Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – The Cordillera People's Alliance is preparing to de battle againt more mining applications, among them a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) by Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMC). The...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch BAGUIO CITY – In a statement sent to the media, the spokesperson of the Cordillera People's Democratic Front (CPDF) said the miserable situation in the regions of Ilocos and the Cordillera mirrors the dismal state of the country...
News release November 24, 2010 On the second conciliation meeting on the notice of strike filed by the workers, the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company agrees to pay all monetary claims before end this month. These are, however, the claims specified in the...
By ACE ALEGRE Bulatlat.com MANKAYAN, Benguet– Workers of the mining giant Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company filed a “notice of strike” Nov. 12 at the National Conciliation and Mediation Board in Baguio City. The Lepanto Employees Union and the Lepanto Security...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat.com BAGUIO CITY (246 kms north of Manila) — Mine workers of the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company (LCMCo) are complaining that their wages are still being given partially despite promises of the company to...
By ALDWIN QUITASOL Northern Dispatch Posted by (Bulatlat.com) BAGUIO CITY The Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company together with the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Cordillera Administrative Region...
By LYN V. RAMO Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BAGUIO CITY -- A woman in her 50's could not help but cry at the thought that six of her nephews and nieces are facing imminent danger in Mankayan. Janet Mayanggao, a resident of Colalo, Mankayan, Benguet, was...
Mankayan town officials are readying a damage suit against Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company for dumping asbestos-containing materials in Barangay (village) Sapid. BY ACE ALEGRE Contributor Bulatlat MANKAYAN, Benguet (348 kms north of Manila) – Mankayan town...
A planned municipality-wide forum on mining scheduled on March 15 in Abra town was denied permission by barangay (village) officials. BY ALDWIN QUITASOL REGIONS Northern Dispatch Posted by Bulatlat BANGUED, Abra (400 kms north of Manila) - The Kakailian Salakniban...
Impoverished as they are after the Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company imposed a reduced work scheme, three unions in Mankayan braved travel woes hoping to get what has been long due them. Instead, mineworkers and their wives went home empty-handed after security...
Mine workers are starting to feel the effects of the global financial crisis. The Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company has begun implementing a work rotation scheme. Worse, workers could not avail of loans because the company did not remit to the proper agencies the...
Miners, their wives and other community members assailed Lepanto Consolidated Mining Company's (LCMCo) new policy of reduced working days, which is essentially a work rotation scheme, in a protest rally in front of the company's general office in Mankayan. BY CYE...
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