Posts Tagged ‘mining

LAST Tuesday, March 24, marked the 13th anniversary of the Marcopper mining disaster that choked the Boac River with tons of toxic mine tailings, instantly sapping life out of one of Marinduque's major waterways. Thirteen years later, the toxic legacy of...

SUMMER is upon us, and in a fortnight, it will be Lent. Very soon, hordes of Filipinos, mountaineers, nature-lovers, and entire families will take the traditional trek to Northern Luzon for cooler weather and better scenery. There they will marvel once...

WHEN mines shut down, they don’t just fade away like old soldiers. They fester and fall apart once their owners walk away. That’s what seems to have been happening to the mines that have closed one after the other across the country in the last...

December 29, 2008 · Posted in: Environment Watch, i Report Features

The Canadian quandary

OUR latest story by PCIJ Fellows Isa Lorenzo (from the Philippines) and Philip Ney (from Canada) looks at the mixed record of good and bad business practices by mining firms from Canada, the world’s largest exporter of metals and minerals. In 2004...

TWELVE years after a major mining catastrophe there, toxic mine wastes still choke key waterways in Marinduque. The threat of more mine tailings pouring into Boac and Mogpog rivers and Calancan Bay also remains, as abandoned mine structures are in need of...

November 2, 2008 · Posted in: Environment Watch, i Report Features

Dig this

THE annual revenues it promises to corporations easily come to millions of dollars each. For governments, the figures can reach billions. The materials it extracts also end up in a wide range of products for all sorts of uses -- from fuel to...