AL S. VITANGCOL III

ENVIRONMENT Secretary Gina Lopez announced to the media on February 8, 2017, the release of the closure orders for 23 mining firms and suspension orders for five others. However, Lopez declined to release the recommendations made by the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) which, according to some quarters, the Secretary does not agree with.

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