"The government’s very strategy of raising taxes to gain more revenue clearly underscores the state’s view of the mining industry: a potent sector that attracts foreign investments rather than a key driver for national self-development.
... For the government to create a policy that truly resolves the mining industry’s dilemma, it must work outside its current paradigm, which puts premium to profits of foreign corporations over the environment and the people."
- K. Gomez and M. Polinar, "Mining Alternatives"
First published in July 2012 on The Philippine Collegian.
