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Environmental group Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment on Saturday called on provincial officials from South Cotabato to uphold the veto on lifting the open-pit mine ban in the area.
On Monday, South Cotabato’s Sangguniang Panlalawigan voted to amend its environmental code to allow open-pit mining.
Described by the late former Department of Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Regina Paz L. Lopez as an environmentally destructive project, the multibillion-dollar Tampakan Copper-Gold Project has finally seen the light of day after the biggest and final hurdle to starting the project has been removed. The Mines and Geosciences…