TACLOBAN CITY—The provincial board of Leyte is hearing both sides in the mining controversy now gripping the town of MacArthur involving a company that ships black sand, a key ingredient in steel-making, to China and a Church official protesting its operations.
On Thursday (Feb.12), the committee on natural resources, chaired by Board Member Mecias Arevalo, conducted a hearing with both protesters and officials of the mining firm MacArthur Iron Sand Project Corp. (MPIC).
Fr. Amadeo Alvero, the town parish priest who is leading the fight against the mining operations, pleaded with provincial legislators to intervene and stop black sand mining at the village of …
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