Philippines: Indigenous Groups Hit Tampakan Miners In Mining Confab

Philippines: Indigenous Groups Hit Tampakan Miners In Mining Confab   Declared mining ‘intensifies struggles, communicates lies’   Mining activists and IP leaders staged a rally at the Sofitel Hotel on Thursday saying that the $5.2-billion Tampakan Copper-Gold Project by Sagittarius Mines, Inc. (SMI) will only worsen the lives of the people of Tampakan in South Cotabato, contrary to its claims that their project will ‘improve lives and give sustainable benefits to communities’.   Rene...

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