More Troops Won’t Solve Mining Woes in Tampakan
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Ridgeland, MS, JAN 11, 2008 (EventX/Knobias.com via COMTEX) — ZNXT | news | PowerRating | PR Charts — By Fain Hughes, fhughes@knobias.com
Philippine green groups today cautioned the Environment Secretary against supporting larger deployments of military and police personnel to protect the operations of foreign mining firms such as Xstrata in South Cotabato, warning that this would give rise to even more conflict and human rights violations against mining-affected communities.
In a statement, Clemente Bautista Jr., National Coordinator of Kalikasan Peoples’ Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE), challenged current Environment Secretary Lito Atienza to reverse his earlier position favoring more military and police presence in communities to be affected by Australian mining giant Xstrata and its mining operations in Tampakan, South Cotabato in Mindanao.
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May 20th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
The presence of military will help Xstrata start mining so that they can show to the militant environmentalist that in today’s mining method is environmentally friendly compared to the past. I am a Mining Engineer and working in Africa, Site Management is the key and if the site top management are made up of australian experienced miners, they will religiously implement the environmental management system. Their is a big difference working in mining company run by local experienced Mining Engineer compared to australian expatriates. Not unless the local Mining Engineer has been working overseas in a different Mining Companies abroad. I worked in Atlas Mining Cebu for more than 13 years and I observed we are far behind in managing a mine site compared to western system.