I recently attended a seminar about the "No to Mining in Palawan" movement. I didn't really give much attention to the campaign until I watched the video below:
Palawan is one of the Philippine's richest reservoir of biodiversity. Allowing the miners to exploit the area is tantamount doing injustice not only to the gifts given to the community but also the people whose once simple lives had been drastically affected by this proposed money making strategy. The fight against the different mining companies have already started and had done their share in tarnishing the Palawan's beauty, this shall continue until all of our resources are gone, thus I urge all of you, bloggers and readers, to take a stand and show your support in this fight for our country's resources.
As for my contribution by, I would encourage more of my classmates to gather signatures for the campaign by showing them this video. I also got my hard copies of the signature campaign from the student council. and also placed a badge on my sidebar to show my support. :)
For more ways on how to help, you can visit www.no2mininginpalawan.com.
how sad. u know kasi, mostly yang mga mining companies na iyan,deyr not a filipino company,thats y hindi sila mapagpahalaga sa resources natin. i attended a seminar about mining, required sa school before, wow nakafocus sa laki ng money sa pagmimina, neglecting d effects na pwedeng manyari.. And the local government naman, walang paki dahil inaabutan sila..
ReplyDeleteNag sign in na ako dito. Hehehe.
ReplyDeletewe always have to ask ourselves in any economic development scheme what are the long-range benefits and costs. the benefits can be quite substantial for mining (especially depending on what is being mined), however, the costs typically make the land completely unlivable meaning that the benefits, long-term, must more than pay those costs.
ReplyDeletethe problem with most mining operations is that the relative costs and benefits in the long-term are usually highly speculative and ambiguous at best and mining interests usually resort to intimidation, bribery and corruption to ram their projects through and end up paying little or none of the costs the projects create in the short, medium or long-term.
@ - mark - ganyan talaga naggigng problema minsan, mas pinaprioritize ang pera kesa sa resources. Papaano pa tayo uunlad kung mismong sariling atin di natin mabigyan ng importansya
ReplyDelete@kuya mugen - yey! :) spread the word din! :)