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                    [Title] => Vizcaya mining row heats up as tribal folk take opposite stands
                    [Summary] => BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — The national and local elections are still eight months away, but residents of a remote mountain village here are now on a campaign trail, not to elect local leaders but to decide whether they would allow mining operations in their area to continue or not.

[DatePublished] => 2003-09-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 221581 [Title] => Church, Nueva Vizcaya environmental groups hail Comelec okay for referendum on mining issue [Summary] => BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — The local Catholic Church and environmental groups have lauded the Commission on Election (Comelec) for approving the holding of a referendum on mining operations in a remote mountain village here.

The Church-based Social Action Center, which has been calling for the pullout of an Australian firm mining for gold in remote Barangay Didipio in Kasibu town, hailed the Comelec move as a "triumph for the environment and for the people."
[DatePublished] => 2003-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 127617 [Title] => Aussie firm faces rough sailing on mining permit [Summary] => BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya — The bid of an Australian-owned mining company to seek a reconsideration of its mining activities here, which have met mounting opposition from the local Catholic Church, faces rough sailing. [DatePublished] => 2001-07-24 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220725 [AuthorName] => Charlie Lagasca [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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