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SunStar: Nickel mining firm barred from Pujada

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

By Ben O. Tesiorna / SunStar Davao

A MAKATI Regional Trial Court (RTC) has issued a writ of preliminary injunction against foreign-owned mining corporation, BHP Billiton, barring the company from operating in the Pujada Nickel mining site in the City of Mati, Davao Oriental.

In an Omnibus Order dated May 20, 2008, Judge Winlove Dumayas of the Makati RTC Branch 59 ordered BHP Billiton against “using, occupying, exploring, developing and exercising acts of ownership of mining right over the Pujada Properties.” [read on]

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BUSINESS MIRROR: Groups renew drive to scrap mining law

Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

By Jonathan L. Mayuga
Correspondent / Business Mirror

ANTIMINING groups renewed Monday the campaign to scrap the Philippine Mining Act of 1995, warning that the entry of the world’s giant mining firms will cause environmental catastrophe.

The entry of BHP Billiton and Anglo-American will “bring the country into a state of calamity” and “unleash an environmental tsunami,” said Jaybee Garganera, national coordinator of Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), during a press conference in Quezon City on Monday. (more…)

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