Unopposed, “surface-contour” or open-pit mining soon will start. Hilltops will be lopped off. Kilometer-wide holes will be blasted in the ground, visible from outer space. Tailings from processing plants would make the land infertile and the seas unfishable. Residents would sicken from hunger, noise, and dirty air. Open-pit mining creates 20 tons of toxic waste to produce a 0.333-ounce gold ring. By then it would be too late to stop the destruction. The DENR typically is feeble in dealing with pollutive miners. That’s what stricken folk in Zambales and Palawan are learning the hard way. There, conservationists are vilified, if not killed.
http://www.philstar.com/opinion/2015/05/29/1459935/destructive-mining-set-most-bio-diverse-zone
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