WHAT could be the largest copper-gold project in the Philippines to date may not see development any time soon after Environment Secretary Regina Paz Lopez vowed to “shut it down” even before the project could start.

Lopez is directly pitting herself against a known ally of President Rodrigo Duterte and the business empire of the Philippines’ richest man, Henry Sy, which already has a stake in the $5.6-billion Tampakan copper-gold project.

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