By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“EO 79 lacks in social justice. It claims it’s good for the mining industry, but it’s very half-baked.” — Ateneo de Davao University President Joel Tabora
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
“Sakit gyud. Dugay na kaming naningkamot aron molambo, among kusog pamuo ang gigamit, ang uban kinabuhi ang gihalad, apan ang EO 79 usa ka pagyatak kanamo” (It’s painful. We labored hard for a long time, others offered their lives. The EO 79 really violates our rights).” — Juanita Villosino, small-scale miner
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Davao Today
Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casino called on Malacañang not to use EO 79 to force local government units “to water down their ordinances protecting the environment and communities from large-scale and destructive mining” in a press briefing here Saturday.
By MARILOU AGUIRRE-TUBURAN
Davao Today
“The EO is not a policy shift but a fine-tuning of the widely opposed RA 7942 which perpetuates the highly extractive, export-oriented and foreign-controlled mining industry” — Juland Suazo, Panalipdan spokesperson.
By ALEX D. LOPEZ
Building the huge all-concrete structure — chiroptorium — will not come cheap.
By CJ KUIZON
By JOHN RIZLE L. SALIGUMBA
By JOHN RIZLE SALIGUMBA
Small-scale miners grapple with the impact of landslides and the government’s demolition order.
DISCUSSION. A liaison officer from the local government discusses with the leader of the small-scale miners the mechanics of distributing…
