Posted on October 31, 2007 by Bicol Today
Environmentalists, clergy continue to oppose Lafayette mines
By Manny T. Ugalde and Rhaydz B. Barcia, Correspondents-Manila Times
LEGAZPI CITY: Albay Governor Jose Sarte Salceda on Tuesday called for a thoroughinvestigation into the fishkill that hit five coastal villages of Rapu-rapu allegedly triggered by mine tailings that overflowed from a mining operation in the said island town.
Salceda said [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2007 by Bicol Today
Arroyo’s flagship mining project in the red with A$94 million loss, promised projects unfulfilled
One toilet, declining fish catch for residents, and financial woes.
Two years after it caused its first mine tailings spill in the island of Rapu-Rapu in Albay on October 11 2005, the Arroyo administration’s flagship mining project is now in the red and [...]
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