Philippines: ringing in the changes with new mining bill
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Philippines: ringing in the changes with new mining bill
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Friends of the Earth Philippines/LRC-KsK has worked with and actively supported indigenous peoples and rural communities suffering the impacts of mining for many years. Mining depletes non-renewable resources, and has massive societal and environmental impacts, yet the Philippine government’s legislation and policies have remained largely pro-mining since 1995, when the Philippine Mining Act was passed.
However, working collaboratively, civil society, including Friends of the Earth Philippines, has helped to develop and promote a new Minerals Management Bill, which seeks to scrap the present Mining Act of 1995. - 14.5833333 120.9666667
Friends of the Earth Philippines/LRC-KsK has worked with and actively supported indigenous peoples and rural communities suffering the impacts of mining for many years. Mining depletes non-renewable resources, and has massive societal and environmental impacts, yet the Philippine government’s legislation and policies have remained largely pro-mining since 1995, when the Philippine Mining Act was passed.
However, working collaboratively, civil society, including Friends of the Earth Philippines, has helped to develop and promote a new Minerals Management Bill, which seeks to scrap the present Mining Act of 1995.
