government tried to conceal the impacts of the company’s operations but the The residents from the town of communities were already organizing and Cajamarca in the municipality of Tolima conducting educational activities to raise in the Andean Mountains, a farming public awareness. [...] At best, it specifies that 10% of all pursuing expansion of operations because the proceeds of all royalties and shares of the they will merely lay off some of their workers Center for Environmental Concers - Philippines 17 policies of their respective domains, surely to the detriment of the welfare of the people and the environment of their states, while prospective companies and their dynastic a. [...] The dynasties in the provinces that are expected regime’s Oplan Kapayapaan, which aims to be the beneficiaries of devolution of power to crush all resistance from communities and taxation from the central government) to against the entry and operations of mining engage in foreign trade relations and legislate companies, will serve as the investors’ on mineral policy and the environmental guarantee. [...] Lopez called for the resumption of the peace and the large-scale mining lobby led by talks between the Duterte administration Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez and and the National Democratic Front of the the Chamber of Mines of the Philippines. [...] Specifically directs the nationalization of mining, quarrying and minerals processing and the due consideration of nationalized mining’s impact on the development of local communities, the environment, and the economic and social needs of the whole nation.
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