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Bishops to talk with Negros officials on mining issues
BACOLOD City (20 February 2006) --- Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, CBCP President, and other bishops will meet Negros officials today at Sacred Heart Seminary here, to discuss bigger issues concerning mining.
The Dioceses of Bacolod, Dumaguete, Kabankalan and San Carlos will also lunch their Joint Advocacy Campaigns purportedly to generate greater awareness and mobilize national and local support on environment issues affecting the entire nation.
The activity will serve as the forum where the participants are expected to issue a stand with regards to mining and its proliferation in Negros Island.
It will also serve as a venue for sharing concrete experiences to the people of Negros and draw lessons from the territorial communities adversely affected by mining operations in Sipalay City; the provincial government of Marinduque in the aftermath of the 1996 Boac River mining disaster; and the people Samar in their recent initiative to defend their island's physical resources base against legal logging and large-scale mining.
Expected to attend the said event are Capiz Archbishop Onesimo C. Gordoncillo, and bishops of San Jose de Antique, Kalibo and Romblon, Negros representatives in Congress and LGUs with mining applications.
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