The GOLD RUSH
The Price of Gold
By Vanessa Gorra
Cover Story
As Gold Prices reach record highs, mining operations are flourishing anew but at what costs?
Xavier Magazine
Ateneo de Cagayen
July to September 2011
The Iponan River is orange. This waterway, which bounds Cagayan de Oro in the west and has [...]
ATM Press Release
December 13, 2011
Iregularidad ng MNP, Intex lumabas sa imbestigasyon
Grupo naninidigang itigil ang pagmimina sa Mindoro
Lalong lumakas ang panawagan ng Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) at ng mga kasama nitong grupo tulad ng National Secretariat for Social Action – Justice and Peace ng Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP-NASSA) na [...]
Mina de Oro (2)
Published : Saturday, December 17, 2011 00:00
Written by : Anabelle E. Plantilla
NATURE FOR LIFE
IN terms of environmental information and communication, the Norwegian Contact Point (NCP) for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (the Guidelines) finds that the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of [...]
Barrick’s Tanzanian Project Tests Ethical Mining Policies
GEOFFREY YORK
Report On Business Magazine
Published Thursday, Sep. 29, 2011 4:57PM EDT
Last updated Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2011 6:07PM EDT
Across the cavernous pits and the mountains of waste rock, the alarm wails eerily, warning that an explosion is imminent. Dozens of villagers gather [...]
POSITION PAPER FOR THE JOINT SENATE HEARING OF COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FOOD AND COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES, FOR P.S. RESOLUTION NO. 641
8 December 2011
Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines – National Secretariat for Social Action (CBCP–NASSA)
Mining or extractive industry is destructive to the environment – “Our experiences of [...]
Mina de Oro
Published : Saturday, December 10, 2011
Written by : ANABELLE E. PLANTILLA
THE Norwegian Contact Point (NCP) for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises (the Guidelines) has released its report on the complaint filed by Future In Our Hands (FIOH) against Intex Resources ASA (Intex) [...]
Mining is Gambling Philippines’ Future, Experts Stress
Email: savepalawanmovement@gmail.com
In the face of the continuously worsening effects of climate change, the last thing that the Filipino people could endure is the loss of its most precious resource and gift to future generations: rich environment and biodiversity.
Mining, as proven historically, has played a [...]
Senate Committee On Agriculture and Food
ATM Statement
Hearing on the Impacts of Irresponsible Mining to Agriculture and Food Security
Dec. 8, 2011
Your honors, good morning and thank your inviting our group to this hearing.
Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) is a national coalition of more than 90 organizations all over the country that [...]
Good moves on mining and climate
These past weeks, even as most media and public attention focused on the controversies surrounding former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, President Benigno Aquino III made potentially game-changing decisions in favor of the environment. First, he instructed his top environmental officials and Executive Secretary Jojo Ochoa to review [...]
Press Release
December 2, 2011
OECD finds Norwegian mining company guilty
‘No reason for Mindoro Nickel Project to be pursued,’ say Filipino groups
Manila – Intex Resources, a Norwegian mining company with a Nickel project in Mindoro, was found to have violated numerous guidelines for multi-national enterprises established under the Organisation for [...]
