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by Maria ANTONOVA Agence France-Presse OY, Russia (AFP) — Innokenty Tobonov sinks his harpoon into a long block of ice while his helpers expertly push it out of freezing lake waters onto the snow-dusted surface before sliding it towards an idling tractor. After an hour of cutting ice blocks out of the lake in temperatures of minus 41 degrees Celsius (minus 42 Fahrenheit), cold vapor has frosted his eyelashes. But this is no excuse for […]
NIAMEY, Niger (AFP) — Seven local employees of a French drilling firm and a government official were killed in southeast Niger Thursday when suspected Boko Haram gunmen stormed the compound where they were sleeping. The attack shattered months of relative calm in the Diffa region near the Lake Chad basin, a strategic area where the borders of four countries converge. The victims, all Nigerien, were shot dead at a site in Toumour, a village near […]
(Eagle News) — Nais ipatigil ng mga residente ng Aroroy, Masbate ang isang malaking minahan na kanilang inirereklamo dahil sa hindi magandang pamamalakad nito at halos nasa 50-100 meters na ang lapit nito sa mga komunidad. Kaya ilang mga residente na ang nakakaranas ng gutom, iba’t-ibang sakit at kawalan ng suplay ng tubig dahil kontaminado na ito ng mga kemikal. Una rito, inihayag ni Department of Environment and Natural Resources Sec. Roy Cimatu ang pagnanais […]
(Eagle News) — At least three people were confirmed dead after a landslide buried several houses in Naga City in Cebu on Thursday, Sept. 20. Chief Inspector Roderick Gonzales of the Naga Philippine National Police said in an interview over radio dzbb that 20 to 25 houses were affected in Tinaan. Ten houses, he said, were affected in Naalad. At press time, authorities were still conducting rescue operations for possible survivors. The landslide in Cebu […]
(Eagle News)—-Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu has ordered a suspension of all small-scale mining operations in the entire Cordillera Administrative Region. He said the suspension will apply until applications for Minahang Bayan are approved. Cimatu gave the order after a landslide initially blamed on mining operations at the height of “Ompong” buried a chapel and claimed at least 33 lives in Itogon, Benguet. “Ompong” has claimed at least 59 lives, the Philippine National Police said. It […]
YANGON, Myanmar (AFP) — At least 27 people are feared dead following a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar, police said Wednesday, as heavy rains hampered the search for survivors. The poorly-regulated and notoriously corrupt multibillion-dollar industry in remote Kachin state is frequently hit by fatal disasters, and the victims often come from poor ethnic communities. The latest disaster hit remote Set Mu sub-township early Tuesday following heavy rains in the area, […]
(Eagle News) – President Rodrigo Duterte warned those destroying the country’s environment, particularly the mining industry that he will go after them with more “restrictive” measures, even as he urged the Senate to pass a National Land Use Act to manage the country’s land resources. The President said that one of the restrictions that his government will implement is the prohibition of “open pit mining” which has destroyed the environment. “The protection of the […]
(Eagle News) — Maglalabas ng mga patakaran ang Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) upang muling baguhin ang sektor ng pagmimina sa bansa. Ayon kay Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu, ito ay upang makinabang ang publiko sa mining sector nang walang naikokompromiso. Sa ngayon, nakikipag-ugnayan na sila sa mining companies sa plano ng ahensya na baguhin ang sektor ng pagmimina. Ang nasabing hakbang ng ahensya ay kasunod ng babala ni Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na ayusin […]
TUTICORIN, India (AFP) — A protester shot during demonstrations against a copper plant in southern India died of his injuries Thursday, officials said, the 13th victim killed by police fire. A curfew remained in pockets of Tuticorin city in Tamil Nadu state where police used live ammunition to disperse protesters this week, provoking international outrage and demands for an immediate investigation. Calls demanding the closure of the copper smelting plant owned by British mining giant […]
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AFP) — An earthquake that hit a South African gold mine claimed a total of seven lives, its owner said Saturday, after rescue operations were completed at the site outside Johannesburg. The epicenter of the 2.2-magnitude quake was close to where the miners were working on Thursday, and 13 employees were trapped about three kilometers (two miles) below the surface. “The last three employees who were recovered (had) passed away from […]
(Eagle News)—-Plant trees within six months or have your mining permits revoked. President Rodrigo Duterte issued this stern warning to mining companies before he departed for China on Monday, April 9. “I do not want to see any bald (patch). ‘Yung dinaanan niyo, I want trees as tall as me by six months. Kapag wala ‘yung kahoy na iniwan ninyo sa winasak niyong lupa, then consider your permit revoked,” he said. He said he was […]
(Eagle News) — The interagency Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC) has started its “fact-finding and science-based” review of an initial batch of 26 mine sites that were either ordered suspended or shut down last year by former Department of Environment and Natural Resources secretary Gina Lopez. The MICC said it had already started on-site visits to these locations this March. Finance Undersecretary Bayani Agabin, who represented the Department of Finance (DOF) at the MICC […]
