Rapu-Rapu, make or break for mining
Filed under: Mine - RapuRapu, Mineral - Copper, Mineral - Gold, Mineral - Silver, Mineral - Tin, Mineral - Zinc, Operator - Lafayette, Operator - RRMI, Operator - RRPI, Operator - RapuRapu Mining, Region 05 - Masbate
Mining boosters insist Filipinos are squandering valuable opportunities for sustainable development by giving companies engaged in this highly controversial extractive industry a hard time.
Litigation and street protests merely stall the discovery of the wealth lying beneath our feet, they say. What fools Filipinos are for passing up this chance at progress!
What the boosters—mostly foreign consultants of multinationals who have somehow established a foothold in the news media—fail to confirm is the sustainability of economic growth from mining, especially as it is being practiced in this country.
Sure, there’s gold—aside from copper, iron, zinc etc.—in them there hills, but who is going to profit from them and for how long?
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