Palawan town to stop issuing permits for open-pit mines
April 1st, 2008
Filed under: General News
From: Inquirer.net
By Redempto Anda
Southern Luzon Bureau
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Philippines — At least 37 pending mining applications, mostly on nickel, were stopped on their tracks Monday after the local government unit of Quezon, the municipality known as the hot spot of mining projects in southern Palawan, declared it had enough with open-pit nickel mining.
“We will no longer entertain any new applications and we will not endorse any of the pending ones,” Quezon town Mayor Ronilo B. Caputilla told the Philippine Daily Inquirer, parent company of INQUIRER.net.
Quezon hosts the south’s second largest mining project, the Berong Nickel Corp. (BNC) project.
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