The jury’s out on this one. Rapu-Rapu’s owners can probably do what they want as long as turn a profit, but I doubt they’ll ever have the backing of the other island residents after their insidious sea urchin ploy, even if they are complying with every regulation in the book. Waste production and storage has [...]
Rapu-Rapu mining resumes under Korean operators
AS mining operations resume in Rapu-Rapu, Albay, a fact-finding mission commissioned by various environment groups is now verifying reports of marine pollution and degradation in one of the country’s richest marine habitats and diving sites.
The International Solidarity Mission (ISM) hopes to uncover fresh reports related to the resumption of mining operations by a Korean-owned firm [...]