ZAMBOANGA CITY: Filipino Catholic bishops have written President Benigno Aquino 3rd and pleaded to stop the $5.9-billion Tampakan mining project by global miner Xstrata‘s Sagittarius in South Cotabato, saying the gold and copper project will dislocated thousands of mostly indigenous tribesmen from their ancestral domain.
The Independent Catholic News reported that bishops, led by new Cardinal and Cotabato Archbishop Orlando Quevedo, wrote a letter to Aquino recently, asking for a “God-enlightened decision” on the matter.
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