Alyansa Tigil Mina Presentation

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The Lies of the Mining
Industry
ALYANSA TIGIL MINA

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Missed economic growth targets 1
GOVERNMENT TARGETS ACTUAL OUTPUT AS OF EARLY
2010
-- 18-23 Large scale mining > 9 mining priority projects
projects developed already in operation
-- $5-7 billion in foreign exchange > Php 2.6 billion total paid-up
generated investment in mining
-- $5-7 billion in excise taxes are > $2.1 billion taxes and royalties
collected (2004-2009)
-- 239,000 in indirect and direct > 13,642 jobs created in mining
employment generated
--$4-6 billion worth of investments > $1.616 billion worth of
investments as of 2008

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Un-sustainable development 2
 Theguiding principles for sustainable
development are economic development,
environmental protection and social equity.
 Inover four decades of large-scale mining
operations, the industry has failed miserably in
living by any of the principles of sustainable
development.

4. + Un-sustainable development
2
 Lack of land to till and farm
 Unsafe drinking water
 Displaced indigenous communities
 Social disorder
 UNENDING LIST OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS!

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Un-resolved mining issues 3
TARGET: Resolve the issues involving mining accidents in
abandoned and idle mine areas
GOVERNMENT TARGETS ACTUAL OUTPUT AS OF EARLY
2010
-- Marcopper mines tailings spill  No updated public document
fully addressed on the Marcopper mines tailings
spill but the communities
affected testified that the
government and the mining
companies not yet fully address
the problems.

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Un-resolved mining issues 3
GOVERNMENT TARGETS ACTUAL OUTPUT AS OF EARLY
2010
-- Final Mabatas Tailings dam > No public information or
covering some 38 hectares document on the status of the
constructed in 2010 Mabatas Tailings Dam.
-- Assessment of 7 abandoned > One abandoned/ inactive mine
mines conducted and stop-gap on going rehabilitation.
measures/rehabilitation of 3
abandoned mines implemented

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And we continue to fight the
system!
ALYANSA TIGIL MINA

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ALYANSA TIGIL MINA MEMBERSHIP
11.11.11, Alliance of Concerned Residents of Aroroy (ACRA), Action for
Economic Reform (AER), Akbayan Citizen’s Action Party (AKBAYAN),
Alliance of Buguey for Community Development Advocates
(ALBUCODA), Ancestral Lands and Domain Watch (ALDAW) – Palawan,
Alternative Law Groups (ALG), Alyansa Laban sa Mina sa Mindoro
(ALAMIN), Apo Manglang Glupa Pusaka (AMGP) - Zamboanga del Norte,
Archdiocese of Tuguegarao Social Action Center (SAC-Tuguegarao),
Baywatch Foundation - Surigao del Sur, Bicol Alliance Against Mining
(BAAM), Broederlijk Delen, Cagayan Valley Partners in Peoples
Development (CAVAPPED), CarCanMadCarLan Baywatch Foundation Inc.
(CBFI), CARE-Phils., Carrascalanon Hiniusang Aksiyon Alang sa Yutang
Gilauman (CAHAYAG), Central Luzon Center for Emergency and
Rehabilitation (CONCERN), Christian Aid, Civil Society Council for
Sustainable Development (CSCSD), Coastal Community Resources and
Livelihood Inc., Cordillera Network of Development (CORDNET),

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ALYANSA TIGIL MINA MEMBERSHIP
Didipio Earth Saver’s Multi-Purpose Association (DESAMA), Diocesan
Social Action Center of the Diocese of Bayombong (DSAC-Bayombong),
Diocese of Masbate Social Action Foundation Inc. (SAC-Masbate/
DIMASAFI), Diocese of Tandag Social Action Center (SAC-Tandag),
DIOPIM Committee On Mining Issues (DCMI), Earth Savers Movement
(ESM), Ecological Society of the Philippines (ESP), El Pescador,
Environmental Broadcast Circle (EBC), Environmental Legal Assistance
Center (ELAC), Foundation for the Care of Creation, Foundation for the
Philippine Environment (FPE), Gabaldon Reform Movement (GRM),
GOMBURZA, Green Convergence for Safe Food, Healthy Environment and
Sustainable Economy, HARIBON Foundation, Homonhon Environment
Resources Organization (HERO), Huk Vets Foundation, I-Care Bagamanoc
Movement, Institute of Sisters of Mercy, Justice, Peace and Integrity of
Creation Commission-Association of the Major Religious Superiors in the
Philippines (JPICC-AMRSP), KAISAHAN, KAISAMPALAD Inc.,

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ALYANSA TIGIL MINA MEMBERSHIP
Kalipunan ng mga Katutubong Samahan ng Pilipinas (KASAPI),
Kapulungan Para sa Lupaing Ninuno (KPLN) – Mindoro, Kasibu Inter-
Tribal Response Towards Ecological Development (KIRED), KONTRA-
MINA UST, Legal Rights and Natural Center-Kasama sa Kalikasan/Friends
of the Earth Philippines (LRC-KSK / FoE Phils.), Lingkot Tao Kalikasan
(LTK), Malabing Valley Multipurpose Cooperative (MVMC), Mangyan
Mission (MM), Maporac Aeta Organization (MAO), Marinduque Council
for Environmental Concerns (MACEC), Mining Watch Canada, Miriam
College – PEACE, Miriam College Environmental Studies Institute
(Miriam-ESI), Nagkakaisang Tribu sa Palawan (NATRIPAL), Palawan NGO
Network, Inc, (PNNI), Pambansang Kilusan ng mga Samahang Magsasaka
(PAKISAMA), Partido Kalikasan Institute (PKI), People's Recovery,
Empowerment Development Assistance Foundation (PREDA
FOUNDATION), Philippine Association for Inter-Cultural Development
(PAFID),

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ALYANSA TIGIL MINA MEMBERSHIP
Philippine Federation for Environmental Concerns (PFEC), Philippine
Human Rights Information Center (Philrights), Philippine Indigenous
Peoples Links (PIPLINKS), Philippine Misereor Partnership, Inc. (PMPI),
Philippine Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural
Areas (PhilDHRRA), Runruno Landowners Association (RULANAS),
SALAKNIB - Nueva Vizcaya, Save Rapu-Rapu Alliance, Save Sierra Madre
Network (SSMN), Sibuyanons Against Mining/Sibuyan Island Sentinels
League for Environment Inc. (SAM/Sibuyan ISLE), Social Action Center-
Catanduanes, Social Action Center-Marbel (South Cotabato), Social
Action Ministry - Ipil (SAM-Ipil), Tanggol Kalikasan (TK), Task Force
Aroroy, Task Force Detainees of the Philippines (TFDP), Task Force Nueva
Vizcaya Peoples Organizations (TF-NVPO), TEBTEBBA Foundation, Upland
NGO Assistance Center (UNAC), Women's Education, Development,
Productivity and Research Organization, Inc. (WEDPRO), Working Group
on Mining in the Philippines (WGMP-London), Xaverian Missionaries,
Yakan Integrated Rural Development Foundation Inc. (YIRDFI), Youth for
Sustainable Development Assembly (YSDA)