DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 20 Nov) – Environmental group Interfacing Development Interventions for Sustainability (IDIS) has called on local authorities to beef up their efforts to crack down on illegal quarrying activities along the Tamugan River. In a statement forwarded
A quarry worker sifts sand through a sieve by the river in Bayug in Iligan City early morning Sunday (14 July 2024). MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
A worker quarries sand by the bank of the Mandulog River in Iligan City on Friday (5 January 2024) as goatherds, with their dog, gather their animals as the sun sets. MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
Workers head for home after quarrying sand at a deep portion of Mandulog River in Iligan City on Saturday (15 July 2023). MindaNews photo by BOBBY TIMONERA
CAGAYAN DE ORO (MindaNews / 12 November) — Police investigators said one of the gunmen approached Roland Sherwin Uy as he lay dying on a folding chair at the family-owned quarry in Zone 1, Barangay Pagatpat last Thursday, to make
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 31 May) – Companies engaged in the mining and quarrying activities are the most labor-intensive among other sectors in Davao region, according to the 2016 Annual Survey of Philippine Business and Industry Inc. (ASPBI) that was
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 31 Aug) – “It’s a lonely battle by the vice mayor,” said Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS) Vice Mayor Orly A. Amit, expressing his frustration against other city officials’ inaction on the quarry operations of
DAVAO CITY (MindaNews / 28 May) – A number of quarries in the city are operating at night while others don’t have business permits prompting the local government to order a tighter monitoring of their activities, an official told reporters
An aerial picture of the claimed quarry operation along the Taligaman River in Butuan City taken 8 October 2014. Residents are suspecting that there is mining operation here, because that was what authorities found out during two raids conducted last
BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews / 16 Oct) – Concerned citizens here have raised concerns over reports of an alleged mining operation in a hinterland village disguised as quarry a year after the same area was raided twice by authorities because of
