Essay About Mining Industry In The Philippines

Una Diana Selina C. Talam
MBA
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Philippine Business Environment

I. DENR Shuts Down 23 Mining Areas

Philippine Daily Inquirer February 3, 2017:
With reports by Doris Dumlao-Abadilla and Allan Nawal
Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Gina Lopez on Thursday announced an order for the closure of 23 mines, mainly for ruining watershed areas and “indiscriminate mining.”
“It is time for social justice. You cannot run your business and affect our farmers and fishermen. This is not acceptable under the Duterte administration and not acceptable under the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources),” Lopez said.
The Philippines has been the world’s biggest supplier of nickel since 2012, following Indonesia’s ban

(COMP Executive Vice President Nelia Halcon, an excerpt from February 3 philstar.com article, “Mining Firms Seek Help From Duterte Economic Managers”, by Louise Maureen Simeon)
• Estimates that almost P70 billion in gross production value and close to P20 billion in taxes will be lost if the DENR decision will not be overturned. About 67,000 jobs are also at risk.
(February 3 philstar.com article, “Mining Firms Seek Help from Duterte Economic Managers”, by Louise Maureen Simeon)
How this article affects me as person reminds of the time my father worked for DM Consunji’s Mining Corporation, in Semirara Island. Where, into his first year into the job, he had the whole family relocated to the island where my father worked. Semirara Mining Corp. has this open pit of excavating coal that makes you feel dizzy just by looking from the edge of the open pit and seeing originally humongous equipment and machinery looking like those individual