Probe into Pantukan mayor’s mine ownership pushed
SunStar.com.ph
January 9, 2012

 DAVAO – An independent commission will be created to look into the culpability of Pantukan Mayor Celso Sarenas on the latest landslide in his town and to check if he finances a mine tunnel.

The landslide, which tore through a small-scale gold mining site in Sitio Palo Diat, Barangay Napnapan in Pantukan town, Compostela Valley last January 5, killed more than 30 people and left 44 more missing, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) advisory said Sunday.

Compostela Valley Governor Arturo Uy said the commission will be tentatively composed of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG), the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Office of Civil Defense, the chairman of the Committee on Environment of the Provincial Board and a non-government organization.

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