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Business Mirror 11/2/09 by Leonardo Perante II, Correspondent

MADDELA, Quirino—A former governor of this province has called for the complete stop of all small-scale mining activities in this province, calling their operations illegal, destructive to the environment, and inimical to the interests of local residents.

Former Quirino Gov. Pedro Bacani condemned all small-scale mining activities at the Didipio mining impact zone, particularly on the slopes of Dinkidi Hill, host to the OceanaGold Philippines gold-copper project that straddles the boundaries of Quirino and Nueva Vizcaya.

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One Response to “Disaster seen from unregulated small-scale mining in Quirino”

  1. diffun_born says:

    There is an online petition against the operation of Didipio Gold-Copper Mining Project:

    http://www.kalikasan.org/kalikasan-cms-new/

    siguro masapul nga pumirma ni mr. bacani iti daytoy nga petisyon wenno idanon na iti DENR dagiti reklamo na laban ti oceanagold philippines………no awan latta, mapan lattan kuma kadagiti nice people around agreklamo…..

    asideg man sa ngaminen ket ti eleksyon isu nga adu ti rumwar nga papogi points…….

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