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Cantilan residents install checkpoint to prevent mining firm from transporting ore

November 29, 2009


by MindaNews   
Friday, 20 November 2009 00:07

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY (MindaNews/19 November) —  Hundreds of  residents of Cantilan, Surigao del Sur led by Mayor Tomasa Guardo  installed a checkpoint at the triangle along the highway crossing in Barangay Pag-antayan Monday morning to prevent a mining firm from transporting nickel ore to what city officials say is an “illegal stockyard in Barangay Consuelo. The checkpoint, to be manned by police and volunteers 24 hours a day, is intended to ensure that Marcventures Mining & Development Corporation (MMDC) cannot transport ore to its Consuelo stockyard,

The stockyard violates municipal ordinance 18-2008 which prohibits the construction of stockyards for storing mineral ore within 500 meters of the shoreline. The stockyard was constructed without permit from the municipality, a press statement from the CarCanMadCarLan Baywatch Foundation said. >>>READ FULL STORY


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