January 31, 2022 | Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) ATM is largely dismayed that presidential candidates who engaged public interviews in the last few days, consider “responsible mining” as an acceptable framework or concept. We must disabuse them of this misinformation, or simply put, “fake news”. First, there is no such thing as “sustainable mining”, as mentioned by Tito Boy Abunda. That concept was first floated in 2012 during the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil, by the International Cou

Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) | January 25, 2022 Responsible Mining is FAKE NEWS. There is no legal definition of “responsible mining”, so there are no policies or parameters to measure. Then we can’t hold DENR or the mining companies accountable when they fail to comply with their claimed “responsible mining”. Accepting campaign funds from mining companies compromised the elected official. He or she will never be objective in assessing the performance of a corporation if it’s co