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MindaNews » Large-scale mining now Mindanao’s ‘environment destroyer’. By Keith Bacongco, MindaNews July 28, 2012 SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN MINDANAO (MindaNews/ 27 July)– The threat to Mindanao’s environment is no longer illegal logging but large-scale mining operations, National Democratic Front-Mindanao spokesperson Jorge Madlos said. Logging, the rebel leader stressed, is already a “sunset industry” and the mining…

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July 28, 2012

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MindaNews » Large-scale mining now Mindanao’s ‘environment destroyer’.
By Keith Bacongco, MindaNews
July 28, 2012

SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN MINDANAO (MindaNews/ 27 July)– The threat to Mindanao’s environment is no longer illegal logging but large-scale mining operations, National Democratic Front-Mindanao spokesperson Jorge Madlos said.

Logging, the rebel leader stressed, is already a “sunset industry” and the mining industry is now taking its place in destroying the island’s environment.

Madlos, also known as Ka Oris, issued this statement in reaction to President Benigno Aquino’s third State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday. The President boasted the government’s drive against illegal logging in Caraga region last month.

But Madlos claimed that the logs confiscated in Butuan City were owned by several Lumad farmers, who were just merely depending on the supposed income from the logs so they can send their children to school.

“We learned that there was a middle man who consolidated those logs and then sold them to the sawmill operators,” the rebel leader said while monitoring the SONA inside their guerilla base.

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