... concession of Australian-Canadian owned Oceanagold in Nueva Vizcaya.The global protest was held in commemoration of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.
Oceangold’s open pit ...
... Katutubong Magsasaka at Manggagawa, Inc. (SAPAKKMMI, Rights Organisation of Indigenous Farmers and Workers) and the Alyansa ng Nagkakaisang Novo-Vizcayanos para sa Kalikasan (ANNVIK, Alliance of United ...
... companies.
A case in point is one of the Philippines' largest open pit mines: that of Australian-Canadian mining giant OceanaGold in the municipality of Didipio in Nueva Vizcaya. OceanaGold has been ...
... the 80s, brought Governor Carlos Padilla from Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines to testify before a legislative committee on the impacts of OceanaGold’s Didipio Mine there. Two Filipino community members ...
... rob this country of its future.
It was the most amazing week in the 12-year history of our struggle. And we owe much of the magic to the governor of a province called Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines, ...
... as a corporate bully,” remarked Jen Moore for MiningWatch Canada.
Further, in early 2017, OceanaGold’s Didipio gold mine in the province of Nueva Vizcaya on the northern island of Luzon in the Philippines ...
... heard from a delegation from the Philippines, home to OceanaGold’s gold and copper Dipidio mine, located some 167 miles north of Manila in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Quirino. For years, the same ...
... vote to ban mining.
But the push for a mining prohibition remained strong. To support the anti-mining coalition, Carlos Padilla, Governor of Nueva Vizcaya in the Philippines, visited El Salvador to share ...
... from Kairos read from a solidarity statement released by organizations in the Philippines also speaking out against the potential harms of OceanaGold’s operations. Local organizations in Nueva Vizcaya ...
... human rights violations, notably in the Philippines. Forceful displacement, corruption, tax evasion and contamination are crimes that government authorities in the province Nueva Vizcaya have attributed ...
... We are one with the Salvadorans in this plight as our indigenous people in Nueva Vizcaya also suffer from the wrath of OceanaGold,” said Fernando Mangili, spokesperson of Amianan Salakniban.
Since ...
... Nueva Vizcaya, the Philippines. The mission’s goal was to understand the battles and realities of the communities where the Australian mine company OceanaGold operated since 2013.
At first glance the ...
... killing of activists and human rights abuses.
Oceana Gold’s Record in the Philippines
The case of Oceana Gold Philippines Inc. (OGPI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Oceana Gold in Didipio, Nueva Vizcaya, ...
... lobbied for the permanent suspension of operation of Oceanagold, citing both environmental and human rights atrocities. It was in October last year that the company suspended its operation in Nueva Vizcaya ...
... Province of Nueva Vizcaya. A Financial or Technical Assistance Agreement (FTAA) was awarded to OGPI in 1994, but the company only started its full operations in 2011. The first commercial production was ...