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Asserting Local Autonomy: LGUs' Right to veto Mining

By atm.admin - Posted on May 21st, 2009




April 29, 2009

PRESS STATEMENT

GREEN GROUPS CALL OF FOR GREATER LOCAL AUTONOMY ON MINING ISSUES

Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) supports the position of LGUs and several Catholic Bishops in championing the autonomy of local governments to reject the entry of large-scale mining operations in their areas. The alliance also backed the call of the LGUs and the Bishops for a dialogue between all stakeholders and rural poor communities affected by the large-scale mining.


“We completely support the clamor of the LGUs and the encouragement of the Catholic Bishops that we need to continue discussing and articulating with the national government the issue so we can find resolutions”  ATM Coordinator Jaybee Garganera said.


The call was recommended during the LGU-Bishops Forum on Mining, held today, at the UP-Balay Kalinaw, in Quezon City.  The forum was participated in by local government officials and community representatives from mining-affected areas such as Nueva Vizcaya, Oriental Mindoro and Bukidnon.  Several bishops from other mining-affected localities were also present, including Bishop Nireo Odcimar (Diocese of Tandag) and Archbishop Antonio Ledesma (Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro).  The gathering intended to foster unity among different stakeholders on the issue of large-scale mining. 


“The LGUs were mandated to protect and ensure the ‘general welfare’ of the people.  ATM believes that the aggressive promotion of large-scale mining will pose threats to the livelihood, health, peace and order and ecological integrity of the rural areas” added Garganera.

For more information:

Jaybee Garganera, ATM Coordinator, (0915) 315.37.19

Attached files include:

Asserting Autonomy: LGU's Right toVeto Mining presented by Atty. Rhia Muhi (LRC-KsK)
Draft Manifesto of Unity: Local Government and Church People's Response to the worsening impact of Mining in the Philippines

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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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