6 mining barges continue to operate in CDO river
Sulog is a coalition of local environmental groups and socio-political organizations.[]
It means “current” in the vernacular.
“I thought these miners were done operating in the area because of the raid conducted by government agencies awhile back. I was appalled to see them operating again,” said Ravanera.
Recently, authorities padlocked a dredger operating in Barangay Pagalungan here, because this was actually being used for gold deposit extraction, and not just sand and gravel.
A joint operation by the local police and the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, an agency under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, discovered the dredger operating near the boundary of Cagayan de Oro and Opol town, Misamis Oriental.
It was one of the six barge-like vessels reportedly operating along the Iponan River.
Ravanera said that with the video footages and pictures as evidences, they will file a class suit against “anybody who is responsible for letting the mining barges operate again.”
“One Sendong is enough. We should now stop (the) abuse of nature.||| pharmacy
We call on one and all to take legal action in a form of a class suit,” he said.
Environmentalists and civil society groups, together with the Roman Catholic Church led by Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, have concurred that mining operations in the hinterland barangays of the city contributed much to the destruction wrought by tropical storm Sendong late last year.
At least 1,500 people have been killed in the flashfloods then that hit Northern Mindanao, many of them from this city. (Cong B. Corrales/MindaNews)
