After exposing the problem, I began to take away the permits of mining companies that worked in areas like watersheds, where it was against the law. And I banned open-pit mining of gold, copper, silver, and mercury, because that is the worst. The pits are all near rivers and streams, because the pits flood and the mining companies have to pump the waste out and get rid of it.
read more... http://e360.yale.edu/features/how-an-activist-minister-in-the-philippines-took-on-the-mining-barons-gina-lopez
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