Philippines ends open pit mining ban to reinvigorate industry

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The Philippines' environment ministry has issued an order lifting a four-year-old ban on open-pit mining for copper, gold, silver and complex ores, the head of the mines bureau, Wilfredo Moncano, said on Tuesday.

Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Roy Cimatu has signed an administrative order lifting the ban, Mines and Geosciences Bureau Director Wilfredo Moncano said.

But environmental activists expressed dismay over the policy reversal, with the Alyansa Tigil Mina group describing it as "a short-sighted and misplaced development priority of the government".

 

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What other option is there? More humans=more mining=more habitat destruction. It's inevitable. The underlying problem is global human overpopulation. Want to help? Have no, or fewer, children.

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