Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) has denounced the renewal of the Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) of Australian-Canadian miner OceanaGold Corporation (OceanaGold) amid environmental concerns. In a statement, ATM "strongly denounced" the decision of President Rodrigo Duterte to renew the...
Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) has expressed its support to Brooke’s Point Mayor Jean Feliciano, who was temporarily suspended by the Ombudsman as a result of a lawsuit filed by Global Ferronickel Holdings, Inc.’s (FNI) Ipilan Nickel Corporation (INC). In a statement on Tuesday, ATM said Feliciano...
The Philippine government's recent mining policies appear to have weakened the protective and accountability elements of regulating mining in the Philippines . This is according to Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), which expressed dismay over new mining policies being pushed by the Department of...
Executive Order No. 13 0 The government has formally repealed the ban on open-pit mining method in the country, at least based on draft implementing rules and regulations (IRR) of Executive Order (EO) 130. Based on the draft of the three-page IRR, the government repealed, amended, and...
Despite EO 130 The mining sector will remain under scrutiny despite President Rodrigo Duterte's recent decision to lift the moratorium on new mining operations, a top government official said. As a start, Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu said the government is considering imposing more...
The mining sector lauded President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest move to issue Executive Order (EO) 130, lifting the moratorium on new mining projects under EO 79 of the Aquino Administration. Photo credit: https://www.facebook.com/ChamberOfMinesofthePhilippines In a statement, Chamber of Mines of the...
The Office of the President (OP) was urged to cancel the ‘stay order’ issued on mining companies with pending suspension and closure orders. This as such move will not do anything for the Philippine economy. “We demand that the Office of the President immediately cancels this ‘Stay...
The Philippine government has allowed the mining companies that were suspended and ordered closed by former Environment Secretary and late Regina Paz Lopez in 2017 to continue operating. Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) Director Wilfredo Moncano said on Tuesday that the government has decided to...
Regulated use of explosives in small-scale mining areas may be allowed in the amended version of the Republic Act (RA) 7076 or the People's Small-Scale Mining Act, a top official at Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said. This alarmed an environmental group, which said the MGB does not even have...
The environmental ‘trade off’ of the highly destructive mining sector could help the Philippine economy recover during the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official from the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) said. MGB Director Wilfredo Moncano said in an interview with state-run Philippines...
