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Mining in the News 11.28.08

By atm.admin - Posted on November 28th, 2008

Palawan govt issues 25-year mining halt

The local government of Palawan issued a 25-year moratorium on issuance of large and small scale mining permit amid reported violation on mining regulations

Palawan Gov. Joel T. Reyes signed last Nov. 25 Resolution No. 7728-08, which declared the moratorium upon approval of the provincial legislative board.
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The mining ban does not affect decade-old mining operations of Filipino-Japanese consortium in Rio Tuba, southern Palawan, but would impact plans of listed firm Oriental Peninsula, which announced that it is set to operate nickel mining sites in two towns mid-west of the island province. Oriental Peninsula is in a bitter legal war with another claimant of the mining sites and is also seeking thumbs up of the local government.

DENR chief calls for responsible mining industry

Secretary Joselito Atienza Jr., Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) chief, rallied mining companies and stakeholders in the mining industry to serve as catalysts in shielding the country from the impending global crisis.

Atienza made the call even as he cautioned that this would only be possible under a responsible industry.

“If we handle ourselves properly and do the correct things from here on, the mining industry in the Philippines could even be a shield, a protection in case the economic crisis worsens,” Atienza stressed in an interview with ABS-CBN Baguio.

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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.

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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)

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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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