Philippine mining
PH Critical Minerals: National strategy or US agenda?
October 30, 2026
IBON Executive Director on EO 122 on critical minerals
August 24, 2026
Few gains from foreign, oligarch-dominated mining
March 3, 2025
Mining incentives for our industrialization?
October 30, 2024
Incentives for mineral processing will support industrialization only if they prioritize Filipino firms over foreign ones and as part of a more comprehensive industrial policy.
Paltry gains from foreign, oligarch-dominated PH mining
March 3, 2023
Sibuyan’s reminder: People, not profit, should drive the mining industry
March 3, 2023
As long as pro-people policies are non-existent and unenforced, more communities like Sibuyan will be under the gaze of exploitative mining firms that take advantage of the industry, run it for profit, and leave us with nothing for very little.
Furthering destructive mining
July 22, 2021
EO 130: Much fuss about paltry gains
April 26, 2021
The Duterte government with its EO 130 continues to argue for the reckless exploitation of the country’s vast mineral wealth for other countries’ corporate gains and industrial benefits. This makes the projected gains from large-scale mining even paltrier than they already are. We are giving up the non-renewable resource, the Philippines’ huge potential to industrialize, for nothing.
