Press Release

July16, 2010

Koronodal City – SoCSKSARGEN Climate Action Now (SCAN) calls on the President Aquino (PNoy) to never compromise the welfare of the people, the environment and the future in its effort to find a “win-win” solution between SMI-XsTRATA’s Tampakan Copper Gold Project (TGCP) which plans to use an open pit mining method and the Local Government of South Cotabato who passed an ordinance banning open pit mining elsewhere in the province.

LRC-KsK/FoE-Philippines Press Release

July 15, 2010

“The South Cotabato Environment Code is one of the few brilliant pieces of legislation that came out of the dark period of the Arroyo administration.  President Aquino would do well in his vow to correct injustices of past administrations by respecting and protecting the Code. There should absolutely be no compromise on environmental and people’s rights.” This is the response of Judith Pamela Pasimio, Executive Director of the Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center (LRC-KsK/FOE-Philippines) to the news that P-Noy would strive to work out a compromise among concerned parties on the South Cotabato provincial ordinance.