Topic: Mining
Consortium to build coal power plant in Subic
July 22, 2011 · , Subic Times
SUBIC BAY Freeport: Three (3) energy companies signed a memorandum of agreement to put up a US$ 1.28 billion 600-megawatt (MW) coal power plant in Subic, Friday. Meralco, Aboitiz Power and Taiwan Cogen signed a memorandum of agreement which will pave the way for the start of the construction of a coal plant in Redondo […]
Read More...Saving the Planet and Ourselves
June 15, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Cologne, Germany – It’s hard to imagine, 600 sq. miles of woodlands burned to cinders, that’s about the size of Ireland or Northern Luzon, in the Philippines. It happened in Arizona, USA a few weeks ago. It’s the second worst fire in living memory. Gigantic cyclones and tornados have swept through the southern states and […]
Read More...Danger of Planned Coal Fired Power Plant in Subic Bay
June 6, 2011 · By Alex Corpus Hermoso
The Olongapo-Zambales Civil Society Organization otherwise known as the OZCSN is a coalition of Civil Society Organizations organized itself to pursue the following priority thrusts namely: (1) Poverty reduction and MDGs, (2) Equitable economic growth, (3) Peace, security and human rights, (4) Democratic governance, and (5) Disaster Risk Reduction, Biodiversity and Climate Change Adaptation.
Read More...IRRESPONSIBLE MINING BRINGS ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER TO MIDSALIP
May 16, 2011 ·
We continue to go to Court to answer charges brought against some committed Christians, Subaanen tribal people and protectors of the environment by mining companies. These include charges against myself and Columban Sister Patty Adonaire, who is a missionary from Peru, simply because we support the local people in affected villages of San Jose Parish […]
Read More...Moguls should learn to mine their own business
May 2, 2011 ·
Bishops, priests, environmental defenders, indigenous people and the common Filipino have one thing in common and that is a love of their once beautiful land and the environment. When they are told that there is a bonanza of wealth that could make them all rich, they laugh. It’s all lies, just stories of greedy speculators […]
Read More...PAKISAMA Statement Condemning the Assassination of Another PAKISAMA Leader, Florita “Nang Flor” Caya
April 29, 2011 · , soc banzuela
The Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka (PAKISAMA) condemns in strongest possible terms the April 27 dastardly assassination of Florita “Nang Flor” Caya (58), General Manager of a local indigenous peoples’ organization (UTCEL) and Vice-President of a national rural peasant women organization (LAKAMBINI) affiliated to PAKISAMA Confederation. According to police autopsy/investigation, at 7 PM of […]
Read More...The Values We Live For
January 12, 2011 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
While you might believe that the world is mired in a hopeless, all powerful culture of greed and selfish pleasure, take heart and inspiration from the thousands of people who risk their lives daily in the unselfish and heroic service of the oppressed and endangered people of the developing world. Last week Columban Missionaries Father […]
Read More...Angel-Grace, Her Story Continued
January 13, 2010 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
It was a happy day and a happier event for hundreds of the descendants of the original inhabitants of the Philippines. They were gathered in the covered basketball court of Botolan, Zambales, to be recognized as the rightful inhabitants and owners of 15,000 square kilometers of ancestral domain. Many of them had walked thirty or […]
Read More...New Report Says Mining is a Threat to Food Security in the Philippines and Calls for a Moratorium on Mining
February 9, 2009 · , Working Group on Mining in the Philippines Press Release
Philippines Mining or Food? Launch of Report on Monday 9 February 2009, 11.30am-1pm Meeting in the Jubilee Room, Palace of Westminster Former British Minister for International Development and Chair of the UK-based Working Group on Mining in the Philippines, Clare Short MP, is to host the Westminster launch on Monday 9 February of […]
Read More...Pitfalls open in Philippine mining
July 25, 2008 · By Joel D Adriano, AsianTimes
MANILA – Australian ambassador to the Philippines Rod Smith last week jumped to the defense of the dozen or so Australian mining companies operating there, in what is turning out to be a nightmarish venture for most of them. It’s the latest sign that all is not well in the Philippine mining business, despite the […]
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