For Palawan IPs, nickel mining is a threat to the community's survival

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A consensus building is held in Brgy. Barong Barong in Brooke's Point on August 5, 2022.

Rowena Combang

 

MANILA, Philippines — Indigenous Pala’wans in Brooke’s Point in Palawan said they are at serious risk of losing their lands, livelihoods, and way of life due to the extraction of nickel from their ancestral territory.

 

Mining activities in the southern Palawan municipality threaten the livelihood of communities dependent on agriculture, fisheries and forests, and affect the access of residents to clean water, Pala’wan leaders and youth interviewed by Philstar.com said. 

 

They protested the Community Consultative Assemblies (CCAs) that they said were hastily done for the activities of Ipilan Nickel Corp. (INC) and the outcomes of the meetings. 

 

Full Story: https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2022/08/29/2205905/palawan-ips-nickel-mining-threat-communitys-survival

 

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