With respect to the environment, the declaration urges the government to develop a national mining map that clearly delineates where mining is allowed and where it is banned. “Mining should be allowed only in areas that are suitable as to permeability foundations, right groundwater, and stable geomorphic environment. It should be banned in areas where damage to the environment is irreparable and irreversible such as in small island ecosystems with steep slopes and heavy rainfall patterns, in the typhoon belt and acid mine drainage areas. “
In areas where mining is allowed, all mining companies, small, medium or large must be required to install and operate adequate mitigating mechanisms to reduce the damage to the ecological balance and essential biodiversity and to contain contamination of the air and water by toxic wastes and injury to plant and animal life.
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