KORONADAL CITY (MindaNews / 17 May) – The Diocese of Marbel on Tuesday urged parishioners and residents who are against open-pit mining in South Cotabato to join a solidarity march in the streets o…
KORONADAL CITY – The Diocese of Marbel on Tuesday urged parishioners and residents who are against open-pit mining in South Cotabato to join a solidarity march in the streets of this city on Thursday, 19 May.
“Please join and help us in this mobilization. This is one way for our voices to be heard. We need warm bodies to show to them that many of us don’t want the lifting of the ban on open-pit mining,” the prelate told reporters late Monday afternoon. On Monday, South Cotabato board members, in a plenary session, approved on second reading the proposed amendments to the Environment Code, including the lifting of the ban on open-pit mining.
Present during the plenary session were board members Hilario de Pedro VI , Edgar Sambog, Dardanilo Dar, Noel Escobillo, Antonio Fungan, Eamon Gabriel Mati, Henry Ladot, Rolando Malabuyoc, Alyssa Marie Fale and Rose Grace Achurra. Since 2010, the open-pit mining ban hounded the giant Tampakan project, which has been pursued by SMI since the early 2000s.
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