The mining project often described as the biggest foreign investment in the Philippines has been granted an environmental clearance certificate on the third attempt, prompting praise from the Chamber of Mines and provoking fury among environmental activists. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources carefully limited the grant by attaching “certain conditions,” but not even full compliance can guarantee that the controversy over the $5.9-billion open-pit copper-gold project in Southern Mindanao will be resolved to everyone’s satisfaction.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/47327/provisional-clearance
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