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2000 Mining Dialogue in Surigao Del Norte 2000 MINING DIALOGUE IN SURIGAO DEL NORTE BBC Cluster on the Environment and Indigenous Peoples Environmental Science for Social Change (ESSC) March 2008 TABLE OF CONTENTS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ..........................................................................................................3 ACRONYMS .................................................................................................................................5 INTRODUCTION.........................................................................................................................6 Objectives...................................................................................................................................6 Dialogue flow and rules ...........................................................................................................7 PROVINCIAL PROFILE............................................................................................................7 Population ..................................................................................................................................7 Geographic location and topography ....................................................................................8 Rivers and lake..........................................................................................................................8 Forest reserve and protected area..........................................................................................8 Mineral deposits........................................................................................................................8 MINING IN SURIGAO DEL NORTE......................................................................................8 LAND USE PLANNING IN THE PROVINCE .......................................................................9 Recognizing the rights of the Mamanwa indigenous communities to their territories and resources vis-à-vis local development and land use planning....................................9 A LOOK AT THE MINE REHABILITATION FUND COMMITTEE (MRFC) AND MULTIPARTITE MONITORING TEAM (MMT)..............................................................10 The Mine Rehabilitation Fund (MRF)................................................................................11 The Mine Rehabilitation Fund Committee (MRFC) ........................................................11 Role of the Multipartite Monitoring Team (MMT) ..........................................................12 Participation in the MRFC and the MMT .........................................................................12 Offices and groups represented in the MMT .....................................................................12 MMT for Taganito Mining Corporation ..........................................................................12 MMT for Manila Mining Corporation .............................................................................13 The NGO sector in Surigao del Norte and Rural Enterprise Assistance Center (REACH Foundation) ........................................................................................................13 The Diocese of Surigao.......................................................................................................13 MONITORING MANILA MINING CORPORATION’S TAILINGS POND NO. 7 .....14 AN INITIAL ASSESSMENT OF THE PERFORMANCE OF THE MMT .....................16 Gains in multipartite monitoring .........................................................................................16 Some concerns on the MRFC and MMT............................................................................16 Challenges towards the strengthening the MMT ..............................................................17 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS .................................................................18 Livelihood projects .................................................................................................................18 Some concerns on the livelihood projects.........................................................................19 MINING EXPLORATION AND COMMUNITY CONSULTATION..............................19 ACTION POINTS AND WAYS FORWARD ........................................................................20 On strengthening the capacity of the MMTs and MRFC ................................................20 On exacting more responsibility and accountability from concerned government offices in mine monitoring.....................................................................................................20 On ensuring the mining company’s commitment to its environmental and social controls and measures............................................................................................................20 On livelihood projects and community development programs .....................................20 On local land use and development planning.....................................................................21 On greater recognition of Mamanwa rights.......................................................................21 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................22 APPENDIX 1. ITINERARY FOR THE MINING DIALOGUE IN SURIGAO DEL NORTE .........................................................................................................................................23 APPENDIX 2. SAMPLE MULTIPARTITE MONITORING TEAM REPORT.............24 ESSC: 2000 Mining Dialogue – Surigao-Manila Mining Corporation 2 March 2008 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The second Bishop-Businessmen’s Conference (BBC) Mining Dialogue in Surigao del Norte on 29 November to 1 December 2000 revolved around the functions and performance of local multi-stakeholder mine monitoring mechanisms and the community development programs (including livelihood projects) implemented by mining companies. Local multipartite monitoring of mining operations and community development projects are among the measures in the 1995 Philippine Mining Act that seek to enhance the social acceptability of mining in relation to issues constantly raised against mining, such as environmental destruction and disasters as well as adverse socio-cultural and economic impacts. The province of Surigao del Norte in the Caraga Region is the first mining area where the Mine Rehabilitation Fund Committee (MRFC) and Multipartite Monitoring Team (MMT) were implemented in the country. These mechanisms institutionalize the participation of local communities, local government units (barangay, municipality and province), non-government organizations, religious sector and other civil society groups in monitoring mining operations. The participation of these on-site stakeholders and their assisting partners in the above local monitoring mechanisms creates opportunities for these stakeholders to level off with a mining company and concerned government agencies (and vice versa) and have a voice in the implementation of a mining project that impact on their lives and the environment. The capacity and efficacy of the MMT and MRFC in Surigao del Norte to hold mining companies to their environmental management and socioeconomic commitments in the areas that are affected by their operations was put to the test by the year-long dispute over Tailings Pond (TP) 7 of Manila Mining Corporation (MMC) involving the MMT/MRFC, MMC and concerned government line agencies, particularly the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) and the Environmental Management Bureau (MGB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Throughout the year 2000, the MMT/MRFC protested the continued dumping of MMC of mill tailings in TP 7 considering that the company’s permit to operate the tailings pond expired in January 2000 and the impounded tailings was nearly – and eventually was – in breach of the 50-meter height limit. The local communities and their support groups, primarily the Diocese of Surigao, picketed the entrances of Manila Mining Company in protest to the issuance of the regional EMB of a permit to MMC to construct three more meters above the existing dam despite lack of social acceptability. The issue evolved into a legal dispute. The Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources conducted a hearing on the issue and recommended among others the decommissioning of the said tailings pond. Despite these recommendations and local protest actions, the mining company simply went on using TP7, while pursuing with the regional MGB and EMB its application for permit to raise the wall of TP7 by three meters. In protest to MMC’s disregard for the MMT/MRFC concerns, MMC’s lack of environmental and social commitment and the lack of decisive and coherent action from the line agencies, the Diocese of Surigao withdrew from the MRFC. By the end of the year, MMC suspended its operations. The efforts and gains of the mining sector in Surigao del Norte in establishing multi- sectoral monitoring at the local level and making this work was undermined by the ESSC: 2000 Mining Dialogue – Surigao-Manila Mining Corporation 3 March 2008 irresponsible attitude of MMC and the lack of decisive and cohesive action on the part of concerned government line agencies. Mistrust and cynicism prevailed among the members of the mine monitoring groups causing an impasse in the monitoring efforts and rendering the provisions inutile. There were learnings shared by the local stakeholders
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