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National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).

From the year 2000 to 2015, mining contributed a meager 0.7 percent to the GDP. From 2011 to 2015, mining generated an average of 23,644 jobs yearly, force of one big mall operator.

The “big” part, really, is on the returns of the mining companies, gouge and dig out the earth to extract minerals. Organized crime is probably the only activity that yields better than min of getting jailed or getting EJKed for “responsible” mining. After the extraction has exhausted the that site is abandoned in haste,

Who magnifies the “major contributions“from mining? The media are an abettor. But the ones driving and funding the economic sector are the miners via the Chamber of Mines and the and their surrogates. Students of into the pro-mining campaign.

Recently, a so-called industry council recommended the reopening of the open pit mines closed by the previous DENR leadership on the basis of tortured and un

Mr. Duterte should stand true to his promise to stop all forms of open pit mining. Then uphold mining operations that violated mineral-sharing agreements.

The death spiral in the commu is an irreversible process. DU30 should treat mining as a problem more lethal than the drug menace.