Hello .. these tables are BY FAR the strongest
and most powerful indictment on what mining in this country is really all
about. Numbers don’t lie. In fact this was not even a study with a specific
intent on mining - it was done on Poverty in the Philippines.
The technology used is the one that is currently being used in the Philippines to determine the poverty situation. It includes the Human Development index: knowledge, life expectancy and standard of living. This was developed by the UNDP to measure the well- being of the community. The study also includes the Gender Development Index to reflect any inequality between men and women. It includes the Human Poverty Index which reflects life expectancy, literacy, health and access to water. The study even includes a measure of capabilities and opportunities. So clearly the study is not just about income - but whether the concerning individuals, households or communities are living decently.
What the study shows is that for all their bluster on the billions they are giving the economy and the jobs that are being created, the effect on the economy has been dismal. It was presumed that the people in the mining sector were well - the sufferisng was with the communities around. The table shows that mining has no replicator effect.. no domino effect of economic well being. Unliketourism - which spills over into agriculture, transportation, handicrafts. Mining does not even yield a decent standard of living the VERY people involved IN the ming sector. What there is is a domino effect of malaise as communities around the mine site are affected in terms of farming, fishing, clean air, clean water....
Numbers don't lie.
No less than the Dean of the UP School of Economics is the author of the study. - no lightweight - which adds even more credence to a study - done over a period of years.
I had sent one of these tables earlier - I would like to add additional observations. Among all the sectors - there is an IMPROVEMENT in terms of poverty figures EXCEPT for mining... It’s CONSISTENT... in all the tables - mining shows deterioration. In terms of poverty incidence - the figures of mining even DOUBLE ... even the unemployment figures improve....
Go through the tables and compare the figures of mining vis a vis the other sectors.. In fact in 2009 - the HIGHEST incidence of poverty is in the mining sector. Higher even than agriculture! But what surprised me the most is that these figures pertain to WITHIN the sector.
I had always thought that the people within the sector were well and that is the people around the mine site that suffered. However the data shows that all is not well EVEN within the sector.
Also attached is a half-page ad from Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP). Quoting from the ad, "to support, unify and strengthen the local Churches and their constituency against all mining projects, and raise their anti-mining campaign at the national level."
I am also sending a link... this is a documentary done by GMA after the NPA attacked Surigao... When I watched the video on You Tube, I flinched... like I literally felt a pinch! How could anyone do this?! and why is this being allowed to continue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LmLlfdjxSgM
There have been two mining accidents in Palawan and damage it caused is irreversible. Farmlands and coral reefs are destroyed. Please see attached article about two mining accidents in Palawan.
Pictures taken by: Palawan NGO Network Inc. (PNNI)
INEFFECTIVE SILTATION OF CITINICKEL
FARMLANDS WITH LATERITE
Light
brown soil is affected by laterite, black soil is healthy
Normal
color of water overflowing during heavy rains
TRACES OF LATERITE NEAR FARMLANDS
DAMAGED CORAL REEFS
Do we want Palawan to look like Surigao..? Or Manicani in Samar? (Click this link to view the video of Manicani - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqhWqIBUmk&feature=youtu.be ) Do we want any bit of our beautiful country to look like Surigao? Is it right?
I hope that you will write about it....
Or talk about it
We don't have to spend a lot of money to get our people out of poverty. We just need to protect the blessings that we have - and let the surrounding community benefit from the nurturance of these blessings: our bio diversity, our seas, our islands.....
Anyway watch the video and bleed..... see the figures and weep....
The technology used is the one that is currently being used in the Philippines to determine the poverty situation. It includes the Human Development index: knowledge, life expectancy and standard of living. This was developed by the UNDP to measure the well- being of the community. The study also includes the Gender Development Index to reflect any inequality between men and women. It includes the Human Poverty Index which reflects life expectancy, literacy, health and access to water. The study even includes a measure of capabilities and opportunities. So clearly the study is not just about income - but whether the concerning individuals, households or communities are living decently.
What the study shows is that for all their bluster on the billions they are giving the economy and the jobs that are being created, the effect on the economy has been dismal. It was presumed that the people in the mining sector were well - the sufferisng was with the communities around. The table shows that mining has no replicator effect.. no domino effect of economic well being. Unliketourism - which spills over into agriculture, transportation, handicrafts. Mining does not even yield a decent standard of living the VERY people involved IN the ming sector. What there is is a domino effect of malaise as communities around the mine site are affected in terms of farming, fishing, clean air, clean water....
Numbers don't lie.
No less than the Dean of the UP School of Economics is the author of the study. - no lightweight - which adds even more credence to a study - done over a period of years.
I had sent one of these tables earlier - I would like to add additional observations. Among all the sectors - there is an IMPROVEMENT in terms of poverty figures EXCEPT for mining... It’s CONSISTENT... in all the tables - mining shows deterioration. In terms of poverty incidence - the figures of mining even DOUBLE ... even the unemployment figures improve....
Go through the tables and compare the figures of mining vis a vis the other sectors.. In fact in 2009 - the HIGHEST incidence of poverty is in the mining sector. Higher even than agriculture! But what surprised me the most is that these figures pertain to WITHIN the sector.
I had always thought that the people within the sector were well and that is the people around the mine site that suffered. However the data shows that all is not well EVEN within the sector.
Also attached is a half-page ad from Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines (CEAP). Quoting from the ad, "to support, unify and strengthen the local Churches and their constituency against all mining projects, and raise their anti-mining campaign at the national level."
I am also sending a link... this is a documentary done by GMA after the NPA attacked Surigao... When I watched the video on You Tube, I flinched... like I literally felt a pinch! How could anyone do this?! and why is this being allowed to continue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=LmLlfdjxSgM
There have been two mining accidents in Palawan and damage it caused is irreversible. Farmlands and coral reefs are destroyed. Please see attached article about two mining accidents in Palawan.
Pictures taken by: Palawan NGO Network Inc. (PNNI)
INEFFECTIVE SILTATION OF CITINICKEL
FARMLANDS WITH LATERITE
TRACES OF LATERITE NEAR FARMLANDS
DAMAGED CORAL REEFS
Do we want Palawan to look like Surigao..? Or Manicani in Samar? (Click this link to view the video of Manicani - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vqhWqIBUmk&feature=youtu.be ) Do we want any bit of our beautiful country to look like Surigao? Is it right?
I hope that you will write about it....
Or talk about it
We don't have to spend a lot of money to get our people out of poverty. We just need to protect the blessings that we have - and let the surrounding community benefit from the nurturance of these blessings: our bio diversity, our seas, our islands.....
Anyway watch the video and bleed..... see the figures and weep....
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