DIWALWAL LEADER WARNS OF HUNGER AND UNREST IF ZTE CORPORATION IS ALLOWED TO MINE

Dakong Yagaw sa Diwalwal

 

Dakong yagaw gyod ang mahitabo sa Diwalwal kung tugtan sa gobyerno nga ang dagkong kompaniyang langyaw ang mag mina sa mga rekursos naturales sa bukid sa Comval.

 

Mao kini ang bahad ni Kapitan Franco Tito nga nagklarong supakon gyud sa katawhang molupyo sa Diwalwal ug sa mga taong aktuwal nga nanginabuhi didto ang planong pagpasulod sa ZTE Corporation, ang kompaniyang intsik nga gilambigit ngadto sa anomaliya sa National Broadband Network project sa gobyernong Arroyo.

 

“Moabot gyud sa bukid sa Diwalwal ang dakong kagutom ug kasamok kung tugotan sa gobyerno nga mosulod ang ZTE Corporation sa mga intsik didto sa gold rush area. “

pasabot ni Tito.

 

Matud sa kapitan taud taod nang nag malinawon ang Diwalwal, apan kung pugson gyod nga ang higanteng kompaniya maoy mohabwa sa bulawan nga nagkahulogan ug dakong ka wala sa kinitaan sa gagmay nga minero sigurado gyud nga magkayagaw.

 

Nabalaka pod si Tito nga bisan ang mga pagtuon unya sa kabataan maapektuhan kung maitsa puwera na sa bukid ang mga gagmay nga nagtikad sa minahan. 

 

Si Tito nagtin aw nga dili lang ang 40 mil ka mga tawo sa Diwalwal ang mobabag sa planong momina ang higanteng kompaniya, kondili hasta na an linibo ka mga tawo nga nanginabuhi pod didto sa minahan gawas sa pagpamulawan. (Ben Catisay, Periodico Vismin News- Comval Province)

 

 

LUMADS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS MOVE TO PROTECT PANTARON AND BALATUCAN MOUNTAIN RANGES FROM MINING

 

By Froilan Gallardo in an article in Mindanews “Environmentalists, Lumads gear up vs entry of mining firms in Bukidnon.

ST. PETER, Malaybalay City (MindaNews/January 5) — At least 38 mining firms have applied for permits to exploit precious metals in Bukidnon, which, if approved, would replicate what logging companies did in the 1970s: partition among themselves the province’s resource-rich areas for their profit-making ventures. Documents furnished to MindaNews by the Diocese of Malaybalay also revealed that eight of these firms have applications in Malaybalay City where there is an existing no-to-mining resolution passed by the municipal council on March 4, 1998. (Malaybalay became a city on March 22 of the same year.)

Two of the firms, Indo-Philippines Resources and Orex Mining Corporation, are multi-national firms with substantial interests in other mining ventures in the country. Indo-Philippines previously owned a stake at the Sagittarius Mining project in Tampakan, South Cotabato. The firm has applied for exploration rights in Barangay Sinuda, Kitaotao town while Orex Mining has a pending application in Impasugong, all in Bukidnon.

Ernesto Tajones, coordinator of the diocese’s Basic Ecclesiastical Community said the Church, aware of the environmental degradation caused by logging in the 1970s, will also vigorously oppose the entry of mining firms in Bukidnon.

 

DUSTS STARTED TO FLY

Dust flying into the sky

I got this from my web surfing and stray into the site of Cantilan.net or the ECarCanMadCarLan Discussion forum and heres what I got. Pictures from the mining operations in the area particularly in Carrascal, Surigao del Sur, the Red Mountain area. These are not from 1 or 2 or 3 mining operations in the area but 7! I appreciate the humor of the owner of these photos for its description of the mountains such as “dust are starting to fly”, “more dust in the sky”, “minerals on board”, he he he.

Minerals On Board

Yeah. The mining operations although gave employment exact a high price of the environment in Carcanmadcarlan region in Surigao del Sur. As of now, mining operations stop because of the onset of the rainy season but come the end of March until October, there will be frenzy of hauling of nickel ores from the mountain. What was once green landscape suddenly turned into reddish and parch area, just like in Mars.

 The mangrove beach. Look at the mountains in the background!