Mineral Mining Minimization & National of Oil & Gas
We NEED actions towards National moratorium on all forms of mineral mining for 20 years until all natural resource valuation of all our islands are completed and no go areas for any form of mining is identified nationwide with full free, prior, informed consent of local communities or IPs are secured by the government for such declarations.
Prior to this, all mining companies will be given a maximum of 3 years to conclude their operations paving way for the rehabilitation of these mining areas afterwards. A comprehensive review of all mining operations will be conducted in the 1st 6 months and those who violated mining laws and guidelines will be penalized immediately or closed down depending on the level of violations. During the period of moratorium, a national land use policy must be implemented & institutionalized rationalizing any future mining operation areas. Furthermore, a 100 year sustainabe development plan must be drawn up to specifically identify the mineral resources our sustainable development will actually require, if any and how down stream industries for processing these minerals for our own use will be setup. All these to be imbodied in a new national mining law that will be passed and implemented to ensure that ore only and export oriented mining will no longer be the norm and that we achieve national consensus derive from FPIC from local communities for mining in the Philippines is achieve before the moratorium is lifted. |