A Filipino environmental activist will be presenting today to an international environmental lobby network the ills of Pres. Gloria Arroyo's mining liberalization programs and projects at a conference in London, United Kingdom.
Clemente Bautista Jr., National Coordinator for Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE), will be presenting before the 33-strong editorial board and members from 14 countries of the Mines and Communities (MAC) strategy conference in London an update on critical Philippine mining projects, including the Australian-led mining projects in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya and the Arroyo administration's flagship project by Lafayette in Rapu-Rapu, Albay.
MAC is an international electronic network established in 2001, whose website may be accessed at ttp://www.minesandcommunities.org/. It will be gathering its networks from around the globe from October 15 to 19. The network will also examine and update the LONDON DECLARATION ON MINING signed on September 16, 2001. The London Stock Exchange in total has almost 200 mining companies listed, earning it the monicker the 'mining capital' for the world.
On the part of the South East Asian members, Bautista will share country updates on Philippine communities' struggle for the closure of Polymetallic Mining Project of Australian-owned Lafayette Mining Corporation and a mining moratorium in Rapu-rapu island in Albay Province, Southern Luzon, a halt to the entry and operation of the world's mining giants in the Philippines, particularly BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Xstrata, and the opposition of indigenous people's communities to the entry and operation of mining transnational corporations (TNCs) in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya; particularly Australian-owned Oxiana and Royalco in Kasibu.
Bautista will also elaborate on the People's Mining Policy drafted by Defend Patrimony, a national and broad multisectoral network of mining-affected communities, grassroots organizations and alliances united against the globalization of the mining industry, plunder and destruction of natural resources in the country.
Defend Patrimony is currently composed of15 anti-mining alliances representing 4 provinces, 9 regions and 2 sectors (Church and legislators) and 28 sectoral organizations, NGOs and individuals.
"The People's Mining Policy (PMP) is a mining policy framework conceptualized as an alternative to the historically pro-foreign, anti-people and anti-environment mining policy of the Philippine government and formulated through the participation of mining-affected communities, grassroots organizations, environmental organizations and support groups nationwide," Bautista said.
"This document serves as an educational tool, disproving baseless claims of mining liberalization proponents and mining TNCs that anti-mining liberalization advocates in the country are "anti-development" and "anti-mining"," Bautista said.
Bautista will also be meeting up with the Filipino community in London to firm up the international campaign for Lafayette's pull-out from Rapu-Rapu after attending the 'Political Killings Targetting Civil Society Conference' last October 13 in London.
Clemente Bautista Jr., National Coordinator for Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (Kalikasan PNE), will be presenting before the 33-strong editorial board and members from 14 countries of the Mines and Communities (MAC) strategy conference in London an update on critical Philippine mining projects, including the Australian-led mining projects in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya and the Arroyo administration's flagship project by Lafayette in Rapu-Rapu, Albay.
MAC is an international electronic network established in 2001, whose website may be accessed at ttp://www.minesandcommunities.org/. It will be gathering its networks from around the globe from October 15 to 19. The network will also examine and update the LONDON DECLARATION ON MINING signed on September 16, 2001. The London Stock Exchange in total has almost 200 mining companies listed, earning it the monicker the 'mining capital' for the world.
On the part of the South East Asian members, Bautista will share country updates on Philippine communities' struggle for the closure of Polymetallic Mining Project of Australian-owned Lafayette Mining Corporation and a mining moratorium in Rapu-rapu island in Albay Province, Southern Luzon, a halt to the entry and operation of the world's mining giants in the Philippines, particularly BHP Billiton, Anglo American and Xstrata, and the opposition of indigenous people's communities to the entry and operation of mining transnational corporations (TNCs) in Kasibu, Nueva Vizcaya; particularly Australian-owned Oxiana and Royalco in Kasibu.
Bautista will also elaborate on the People's Mining Policy drafted by Defend Patrimony, a national and broad multisectoral network of mining-affected communities, grassroots organizations and alliances united against the globalization of the mining industry, plunder and destruction of natural resources in the country.
Defend Patrimony is currently composed of15 anti-mining alliances representing 4 provinces, 9 regions and 2 sectors (Church and legislators) and 28 sectoral organizations, NGOs and individuals.
"The People's Mining Policy (PMP) is a mining policy framework conceptualized as an alternative to the historically pro-foreign, anti-people and anti-environment mining policy of the Philippine government and formulated through the participation of mining-affected communities, grassroots organizations, environmental organizations and support groups nationwide," Bautista said.
"This document serves as an educational tool, disproving baseless claims of mining liberalization proponents and mining TNCs that anti-mining liberalization advocates in the country are "anti-development" and "anti-mining"," Bautista said.
Bautista will also be meeting up with the Filipino community in London to firm up the international campaign for Lafayette's pull-out from Rapu-Rapu after attending the 'Political Killings Targetting Civil Society Conference' last October 13 in London.
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