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BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: Gov. Luisa Lloren Cuaresma,
apparently slighted by the seeming disregard of a foreign mining
firm for the provincial government’s “cease and desist order,”
on Tuesday advised officials of the Australian mining firm to just
leave the province if it could not pay the taxes and fees being
collected by her administration.
“If you can’t pay, then
better get out,” the irate Cuaresma told officials of the
Australian-owned Oceana Gold Phils. led by Jake Foronda, general
manager of its Didipio Gold-Copper Project, at the field office of
the province’s Environment and Natural Resources Office in the
said mining village in Kasibu, Nueva Viscaya, where the firm is
conducting mining exploration activity.
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