South Cotabato governor stands ground on open-pit mining ban:
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines—South Cotabato Governor Arthur Pingoy said Tuesday he and other provincial officials were not bothered by the mining policy enunciated by President Benigno Aquino III in a new executive order.
South Cotabato has an ordinance banning open-pit and other mining practices considered destructive.
President Aquino’s new executive order bans mining only in the Lake Sebu area but allows it in the municipality of Tampakan, where Xstrata’s Sagittarius Mines Inc. has been trying to operate an open-pit mine.
“We are not bothered by the issuance of EO [79] by Malacañang. Our ordinance stays unless its validity is challenged in court,” Pingoy to...
Keep on reading: South Cotabato governor stands ground on open-pit mining ban
GENERAL SANTOS CITY, Philippines—South Cotabato Governor Arthur Pingoy said Tuesday he and other provincial officials were not bothered by the mining policy enunciated by President Benigno Aquino III in a new executive order.
South Cotabato has an ordinance banning open-pit and other mining practices considered destructive.
President Aquino’s new executive order bans mining only in the Lake Sebu area but allows it in the municipality of Tampakan, where Xstrata’s Sagittarius Mines Inc. has been trying to operate an open-pit mine.
“We are not bothered by the issuance of EO [79] by Malacañang. Our ordinance stays unless its validity is challenged in court,” Pingoy to...
Keep on reading: South Cotabato governor stands ground on open-pit mining ban
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