Keynote Address to theInternational People’s Mining

Conference 2015by Dr. Carol P. Araullo

Chairperson, Bagong Alyansang Makabayan(New Patriotic Alliance)

In 2013, five miners died after the coal mine in Semirara Island collapsed.

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This detailed astronaut photograph released by the NASA Earth Observatory on April 12, 2010, shows the heavily gouged northern end of Semirara Island, Antique. Coal mining operations on the island were suspended after at least

nine people were killed in a collapse on Friday, July 17, 2015.

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34 killed and at least 78 injured after police open fireon striking workers at Lonmin mine on August 2012

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Mountaintop removal linked to 60,000 additional cancer cases

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OK Tedi mine pipe spewing waste into the Fly river

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Rio Tinto has cosy ties with the Indonesian military,who have a long history of human rights abuses

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Rescuers carry out a miner from the Qianqiu colliery in Yima onNovember 5 2011. China has one of the world’s deadliest records for miners.

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In Colombia alone 18 mining companies own the rights to minein over 12 million acres (close to 5 million hectares) of land

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Neoliberalization in mining industry

Top: Mining tenure coverage in Cajamarca Region, PeruBottom: Map during the implementation of liberalization

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Steel 'cheaper per tonne than cabbage' in China as iron ore hits six-year low

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