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Republic Act 7942, or the Philippine Mining Act, allows mining operations to clear trees and relocate Indigenous and local communities. [26] The law allows foreign-owned companies to engage in mining activities.
The Tampakan gold and copper deposit is situated in the mountains surrounding the town Tampakan in the South Cotabato province in the Philippines. [5] The deposit was discovered in November 1990 by the Australian company Western Mining Corporation (WMC), who acquired mining rights in Tampakan through a Financial and Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) with the Philippine government. [6]
It also directed DILG Secretary Benhur Abalos to implement the “immediately executory” suspension, which originated from a complaint of Roberto Duldulao regarding the alleged issuance of 205 permits for sand and gravel extraction to illegal quarries in Nueva Ecija in violation of Republic Act 7942 or the Philippine Mining Act.
The first coal mining law, Act No. 2719, known as the Coal Land Act, dates to 1917. [1] [5]Oil exploration was allowed by Act No. 2932 of 1920. [1] [6]An older law, Act. No. 4243, was repealed by The Mining Act, Commonwealth Act No. 137 in 1936, [7] as amended several times by acts and decrees.
March 24, 1996: Marcopper mining disaster, occurred in the island province of Marinduque, Philippines. A year after the Republic Act No. 7942, or also known as "The Philippine Mining Act of 1995" is enacted. A mine tailings pit fracture caused toxic waste to flood the Makulapnit-Boac river, displacing 400 families in Barangay Hinapulan.
In 1944, during the Puppet Philippine Republic, the Bureau of Mines shrunk again into a Division of the Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources. The revision of Commonwealth Act No. 136 in 1978 boosted it again, it was renamed Bureau of Mines and Geosciences Bureau. This gave it an additional function and the authority to make it more ...
Philippine Environmental Impact Statement System (Presidential Decree 1586; 1978) Food Security Act of 1985; Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990; Philippine Mining Act of 1995; Animal Welfare Act of 1998; Philippine Fisheries Code of 1998; Clean Air Act of 1999; Philippine Ecological Waste and Solid Management ...
It is a coalition composed of non-governmental organizations, church groups, and academic institutions and is the largest anti-mining advocacy network in the country. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Alyansa Tigil Mina began as a loose collective that began meeting in 2004 to address threats posed to sustainable development initiatives by the revival of mining ...