The law has utterly failed to jump-start national industrialization and be linked with genuine agrarian program. Inreality, mining and quarrying provide very small contribution to our economy.The sector only accounts 0.70% of our National Gross Product and 0.60% to the total employment. There is no doubt that the continuing implementation of the Philippine Mining Act of 1995 will only amplify the region’s vulnerability to climate change and geological disasters; compromise environmental security, public safety and livelihood; and facilitate more attacks against human rights. There is no other solution but for the people to unite to scrap this mining law and assert for a people’s mining policy that would cater national industrialization and genuine agrarian development.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Jul 2014 12:25:18 +0000
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