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ATM and CBCP-NASSA Letter to PNoy re Mindoro Nickel Project_NCP Final Statement_12.7.2011

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By atm.admin - Posted on December 7th, 2011

December 7, 2011

President Benigno C. Aquino, III
Office of the President
Republic of the Philippines

Dear Mr. President:

We would like to furnish you a copy of the Final Statement of the Norwegian National Contact Point (NCP) on a complaint filed against Intex Resources Inc, a Norwegian mining company not recognized in their home country, that currently owns and manages the Mindoro Nickel Project located Occidental and Oriental Mindoro.

The Final Statement provides that Intex Resources Inc has indeed violated indigenous peoples rights when they did not consult and disclose project information to all affected communities there. It also alleges the lack of proper procedure in land delineation and financial concerns. The complaint filed in January 2009 emphasized that Intex Resources Inc has violated several provisions of the guidelines for multi-national enterprises established under the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and was confirmed by their NCP in November 30 this year.

In this light, we would like to request for your good office to intervene and recognize the impacts of the mining project in Mindoro and the findings of the Norwegian NCP. We recommend that the Minerals Production Sharing Agreements and Environmental Compliance Certificate covering the Mindoro Nickel Project be revoked immediately.

Also attached is a Press Release by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines’ National Secretariat for Social Action (CBCP-NASSA) last December 5.

Thank you.

Respectfully,
Sgd.
Jaybee Garganera
National Coordinator
Alyansa Tigil Mina

Sgd.
Fr. Edwin Gariguez
Executive Secretary
CBCP-NASSA

CC: Department of Environment and Natural Resources-Mines and Geosciences Bureau
National Commission on Indigenous Peoples
Commission on Human Rights

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Hi everyone,

I'm the national coordinator of Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), the owner of this site.

We will always respect views and opinions posted on this site, as much as we encourage open discussion and intelligent debate on the issue of mining. ATM has its stand on this issue very clearly, and we welcome the comments from those who do not agree with us.

However, we have observed that in the past few days, this forum has gone way beyond acceptable behavior of netiquette.

I will request and strongly encourage all posters to at least follow the following rules:

1. Be civil. Basic courtesy and privacy norms should be practised by posters in this forum. Make your mom at least proud by showing you still remember to be polite, even if you're not required to say "po" or "opo" in every post you make. We wouldn't mind that either, if you do so. Then again, I am assuming here that you're already an adult.

2. Personal attacks will not be tolerated. This also applies to flaming. Just in case you don't know what flaming is, its deliberately insulting or personally ranting against a poster (or a thread) simply because you are losing the arguments.

3. Avoid being anonymous. Since you have enough time to post long comments, you would at least have a few seconds to type even an alias. You also help people conclude that you are not a paid hack from a PR firm by Intex (or any other mining company)

4. Do not shout in the forums. Do not use ALL CAPS in your posts. A single exclamation point should also suffice.

We will observe the forum in the next few days. Should these rules be disregarded, we will transform this into a minimally-moderated forum. We hope we will avoid the situation that we will decide to make this a closely and strictly moderated forum. We value everyone's insights so much.

We'll check up again on this new rules after a short while. Of course, we expect the Intex ECC to be revoked in a few days. In this case, I suspect that the "excitement" in this thread would have died down.

Jaybee Garganera
National Coordinator
ATM
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