Read this in The Manila Times digital edition.
THE recent end to the four-year ban on open-pit mining in the Philippines is a tremendous disappointment. In spite of hollow promises that "adequate safeguards" and "strict regulation" will prevent harm, the decision elevates the risk of large-scale environmental and social damage almost to the point of inevitability, and completely fails to read the room when it comes to public opinion on the issue of mining.
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