![]() ![]() (BMVI), according to the response letter of DENR-MGB to the inquiry of the Community Volunteer Missioners (CVM) in 1997. Then, on June 2, 1997, BVI entered into an Operating Agreement with Boneng Mining Ventures Inc. The employees on the other hand received, at most, only half of the expected separation pay. The people searched for top soil and new water sources to be able to farm again. WMC left the former with unsettled land sales and leases, along with farm lands that were left non-arable because of thick landfills that were dumped by WMC. Their insolvency affected the residents and the employees. In February 1982, WMC declared bankruptcy, only using up 8 years of its 25 years contract with BVI. Barangay Lubo now contributes significantly to "sayote" (sechium edule) production in the country. Despite these, the people have initiated their own recovery efforts through vegetable farming. Damages include forcible displacement of people from their ancestral domain, mining accidents such as drowning, food poisioning of about 306 people in the late '70s, drying up of major rivers caused by siltation, irreversible water diversions caused by destruction of aquifers when underground tunnels and open pits were constructed, toxins in waters and continued erosions caused by constructions done by WMC. ![]() (AMMEC) despite the peoples' resolve to recover from the destruction cause by the open pit mining operation done by Western Minolco Corporation (WMC), the mining operator of Benguet Ventures Inc. The Letters of Complaint cited two of the several incidents of unauthorized entry of mining representatives said to represent Al Magan Mining Exploration Corp. Source: A Community Volunteer Missioners (CVM) Bīoneng-Lubo Indigenous Peoples Resolved to keep Mines from ReopeningĪ Community Volunteer Missioners (CVM) BulletinīENGUET PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES - In Letters of Complaint sent to the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment - Mines and Geo-sciences Bureau (DENR-MGB) of the Cordillera Administrative Region, the Indigenous Peoples of Barangay Lubo Kibungan Benguet Association (IPBLKBA), reiterated its objections to the numerous unauthorized visits of alleged mining representatives who have made attempts to dishearten the people in their Anti-Mining stand in their ancestral domain. ![]() Boneng-lubo Indigenous Peoples Resolved To Keep Mines From ReopeningPublished by MAC on ![]()
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