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Residents, Small-Scale Miners Act to Stop Encroachment of Large Mining Firms

Residents, Small-Scale Miners Act to Stop Encroachment of Large Mining Firms

By CHERYLL D. FIEL
Residents of Pantukan, a coastal town in Compostela Valley province, are locked in battle against two large-scale mining companies attempting to wrest full control of the area’s mineral resources. They also bewail the unfair advantage the government gives to these companies at the expense of small-scale miners.

‘Wake-Up Call’ for Abusive Mining Companies in the Philippines

‘Wake-Up Call’ for Abusive Mining Companies in the Philippines

Abuses by mining companies are not new in the Philippines. Destructive mining have, for decades and in tandem with wanton logging and the equally destructive building of dams, destroyed and poisoned whole communities. Mining companies have been shortchanging these communities. Worse, these firms have been using the police, the military and paramilitary units as their security guards, leading to human-rights abuses such as those suffered by the Ifugaos in Nueva Vizcaya.

Foreign Mining Companies Deceive, Force People to Agree to Operations

Foreign Mining Companies Deceive, Force People to Agree to Operations

By ANNE MARXZE D. UMIL
The results of two environmental investigative missions belie the declaration of President Benigno Aquino III that local communities would decide whether to allow mining operations in their area or not. In South Cotabato, Aquino was reported to have mediated to reverse the decision of the local government disallowing mining in their jurisdiction.

‘Going Down the Drain’

‘Going Down the Drain’

Philippine environmentalists will bring the controversial Lafayette mining project to international forums and ask foreign investors to withdraw as the operation violates environmental standards and local community rights. Bulatlat.com Environmental activists...

A Bloody Struggle for Land in Compostela Valley

A Bloody Struggle for Land in Compostela Valley

By JANESS ANN J. ELLAO
For the farmers, peasants and indigenous peoples of Southern Mindanao, the past several years had been a period of great danger and violence as big mining companies encroach into ancestral and agricultural land, using the military to drive them away. Many peasant and Lumad leaders who opposed these projects have ended up dead and tortured.

In Surigao and Caraga Region, a Brutal Push for Investments

In Surigao and Caraga Region, a Brutal Push for Investments

By ALEXANDER MARTIN REMOLLINO
Far from a counter-insurgency operation, the massive militarization and dislocation of communities in Surigao del Sur and the Caraga region had more to do with protecting business interests, primarily mining and energy investments. Although there is nothing particularly new in all this, the Arroyo regime had actually taken the extra step to ensure that the military would act as veritable security guards of these companies.

For the Philippines’s Tribal Folk, a Constant War Against ‘Development Aggression’

For the Philippines’s Tribal Folk, a Constant War Against ‘Development Aggression’

By RONALYN V. OLEA
While the right of indigenous peoples to their ancestral land is recognized by international agreements and conventions, indigenous peoples in the Philippines are relentlessly being driven away by mining, tourism and other so-called development projects. In Zambales alone, more than 70 mining firms are now operating, with some preventing the Aetas from entering what used to be their land.

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