Nueva Vizcaya governor orders quarrying activities of
Oceana Gold Phils. stopped
By Larry Madarang, Correspondent
KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya: Tension
mounts at Didipio gold and copper mines as Gov. Luisa Lloren
Cuaresma ordered provincial authorities to stop quarrying
activities at the mine site Wednesday morning.
Members of the provincial
Environment and Natural Resources office and Philippine National
Police flagged down and commandeered dump trucks of CCF Co.,
stopping operations here.
KASIBU, Nueva Vizcaya: Residents
here are revving their anti-mining campaign once more against a
foreign mining firm and in support of the provincial government’s
move to collect local taxes from Oceana Gold Phils.
CLARK FREEPORT: Locators of Clark
Economic Zone on Wednesday urged President Arroyo to sign an
executive order allowing unlimited freedom rights to foreign air
carriers.
THE influential Catholic Bishops
Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) on Wednesday rallied behind one
of their members who is now a subject of an arrest warrant issued by
a Manila Regional Trial Court.
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY: Puerto
Princesa City Mayor Edward Hagedorn and leaders of two environment
legal groups filed charges against Napocor officials led by the head
of the Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG)...
A total of 750 high school
science clubbers from all over the country planted mangrove trees in
Kalibo, Aklan in a bid to help expand the remaining mangrove cover
in the country.
Full
Story>>
