THE Supreme Court (SC) has set aside a Court of Appeals (CA) ruling that allowed Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co. and Far Southeast Gold Resources, Inc. to continue their mining operations in Mankayan, Benguet.
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“As the Mankayan indigenous peoples cannot be deprived of their rights to their ancestral domains without their consent, the arbitral award cannot be said to be complete, final and definite, worse binding upon them,” Associate Justice Henri Jean Paul B. Inting said in the ruling. In 1990, the state, through the Department of Environment and Natural Resources , entered into a mineral production-sharing agreement with Lepanto that authorized the firm to conduct mining operations on a large tract of land in Mankayan.
In 2014, Lepanto and the DENR expressed their intention to renew the agreement with the municipal government of Benguet as it was set to expire in 2015.
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