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		<title>Green group slams &#8216;guns for hire&#8217; by mining firms</title>
		<link>http://bicoltoday.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/green-group-slams-guns-for-hire-by-mining-firms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calls on Church, legislators to probe hiring and use of AFP&#8217;s military troops to protect mining operations  
An environment group today slammed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) by acting as &#8216;guns for hire&#8217; by mining firms, after media reports today disclosed that the AFP&#8217;s 7th Infantry Division has signed a Memorandum of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=158&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mining policies a bane for RP&#8217;s green courts</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The creation of 117 environmental courts is a positive development which may be unforunately reversed by the very actions of the Arroyo administration. We are thankful that the judiciary and Chief Justice Puno have gone towards the step of creating &#8216;green&#8217; courts. But the fundamental source of problems is the policy of plunder and environmental [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=154&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tribal folks barricade nearing clash with mining firm</title>
		<link>http://bicoltoday.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/tribal-folks-barricade-nearing-clash-with-mining-firm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 02:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Close to a hundred tribal folk are preparing for a head-on confrontation with an allegedly armed pro-mining mob and heavy drilling equipment in the municipality of Kasibu in Nueva Vizcaya, Northern Luzon, this afternoon, an environmental group reported.
Citing reports from the field, Kalikasan Peoples&#8217; Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) National Coordinator Clemente Bautista Jr. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=149&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camp-out vs GMA&#8217;s flagship mining project kicks off</title>
		<link>http://bicoltoday.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/camp-out-vs-gmas-flagship-mining-project-kicks-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lafayette mine should be closed, affected communities compensated – Kalikasan PNE
Amidst reports of financial woes plaguing the Arroyo administration&#8217;s flagship mining project in Rapu-Rapu island, local residents are launching a week-long rally and camp-out in front of the Albay Provincial Capitol to call for the permanent closure of Australian-owned Lafayette Mining Limited&#8217;s open-pit mine and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=118&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Protest against Lafayette mining heats up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2007 02:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Albay board to review memorandum of agreement between Australian firm and provincial govtProtest against Lafayette mining heats up
By Rhaydz B. Barcia, Correspondent-Manila Times
Legazpi City: Finally the provincial government of Albay agreed to reinvestigate the fish kill incident off the shores of Rapu-Rapu a month ago and finally settle the issue.
The move came following the appeal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=116&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GMA turns &#8220;environmentalist&#8221; at Asean, but remains mining promoter back home</title>
		<link>http://bicoltoday.wordpress.com/2007/11/18/gma-turns-environmentalist-at-asean-but-remains-mining-promoter-back-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Philippine environmentalists today scored President Gloria Arroyo for purporting to press for environmental issues at the upcoming Asean summit while remaining supportive of ecologically destructive mining projects back home. 
In a statement, Kalikasan Peoples Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE) National Coordinator Clemente Bautista Jr. said that GMA&#8217;s move to pursue environmental issues at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=76&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 mining activists detained</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jaymee T. Gamil, Inquirer
Legazpi City &#8211; Two protesters were detained and interrogated for an hour by policemen at around 3 p.m. on Wednesday during the dispersal of a 200-strong rally in front of the municipal hall in Barangay Poblacion of the island-municipality of Rapu-Rapu. 
The rally, held simultaneously with the Sangguniang Bayan regular session, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=74&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bicol townsfolk storm jail to free 2 colleagues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 05:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Artemio Dumlao
The Philippine Star
The town jail in Poblacion Rapu-Rapu in Albay was reportedly stormed by at least 400 townsfolk on Wednesday freeing two of their colleagues earlier nabbed in an anti-mining demonstration. 
Apparently pressured with the throngs of angry protesters, authorities reportedly freed 69-year-old village leader Antonio Casitas, a staunch critic of Lafayette and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=73&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rapu-Rapu folk, green groups ask provincial gov&#8217;t, Gov. Salceda</title>
		<link>http://bicoltoday.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/rapu-rapu-folk-green-groups-ask-provincial-govt-gov-salceda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bicol folk and green groups outraged over the recent fish kills near the Lafayette mine site in Rapu-Rapu island, Albay united to press the Albay provincial government for an urgent probe involving the communities affected by the open-pit mining project by the Australian-owned firm. 
Thousands of Rapu-Rapu residents gathered today in a Kampong Bayan (People&#8217;s Camp) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=65&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over a thousand fisherfolk and local people troop to Rapu-rapu Municipal Hall, demand immediate economic relief, compensation and closure of Lafayette</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With no livelihood and food to eat, around one thousand three hundred residents of Rapu-rapu island are holding a protest action in front of the Municipal Hall three days after the fish kill incident in the area.
&#8220;The Arroyo government and the municipal government are responsible for the entry of Lafayette mining operation in our communities. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bicoltoday.wordpress.com&blog=1253043&post=63&subd=bicoltoday&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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