The Supreme Court sitting en banc has terminated a 2015 arbitral ruling which exempted gold and copper miner Lepanto Consolidated Mining Co. from securing the free, prior and informed consent of ancestral domain dwellers in Benguet’s Mankayan town.
The consent of indigenous Filipino communities are required by Republic Act No. 7942 and RA 8371 which became laws after Lepanto acquired its original MPSA.
Lepanto had yet to issue a statement on the Supreme Court decision. But MGB Cordillera director Fay Apil said on Wednesday that the company had chosen to continue the renewal process, and had asked her agency for an endorsement to secure the FPIC. In a separate opinion, Associate Justice Marvic Leonen pointed out that the rights arising from the MPSA ended when the agreement lapsed.
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