'It's only a matter of time before they start digging.... This will pose a direct threat of landslides toward the dwellings below,' warns Gutalac Mayor Eddie Justin Quimbo.
ZAMBOANGA DEL NORTE, Philippines – A mayor in Zamboanga del Norte has questioned the environment department’s move to lift its order for two mining companies to stop exploration in Gutalac town, just a month after issuing it on March 1.
“The release of the Certification Precondition is highly questionable. They already have an exploration permit. So, does that mean the Certification Precondition they had submitted was fake?” Quimbo told Rappler on Monday, April 10. Since the site in question overlapped an ancestral domain, he said a comprehensive Free and Prior Informed Consent process should have been required.
Quimbo said an FPIC the process could not have been completed because Gokum Walter Timol, Gutalac’s Indigenous Peoples mandatory representative, and some 50 members of the IP community in the town were strongly against the mining operations. An inspection by the Environmental Management Bureau showed that approximately 0.81 hectares, representing 89% of the total area designated for the proposed port, had already been reclaimed.
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