While the Philippine government
today were very busy fighting for its territorial rights in Bajo de
Masinloc (Panatag/Scarborough Shoal) and some other islets being occupied by
the Chinese. Now, not only the offshore they occupied but, the truth is that
they are now occupying a slice of the mainland Zambales, 108 kilometers east.
Chinese miners are now stealing nickel ore and the same way poach sea creatures
in the shoal, bribed local officials and do what they want.
In the West Philippine Sea-side Sta. Cruz municipality,
Zambales operates three Chinese firms.
*Jiangxi Rare Earth & Metals Tungsten Group
*Wei-Wei Group
*Nihao Mineral Resource Inc.
Through the small scale mining, they set a Filipino dummies and
show what they are doing is legal, betraying the fact that they are one.
Anti dummy law protects the Philippines from unlawful use
and exploitation having in its name or under control, a right, franchise, privilege
and enjoy of which supposedly reserved by the Constitution for its citizens of
the Philippines for at least 60-40 share. But the reality is, the firm paid the
local people as dummy to virtually own the 60% while controlling the 100% full
real ownership.
People of Sta, Cruz are now crying for its denuded mountains, destructed
watersheds and poisoned farmlands. The Philippines is now Chinas main source of
nickel and five Chinese mines contributes a part of it. China processes the
nickel into its hi-tech weapons and surveillance systems.
The Sta. Cruz Masinloc Infanta highway is known to be the dump
truck capital of the Philippines. Thousand of trucks tailpipe emissions and ore
load dust pollutes the environment. The Department of Natural Resources
reported that they monitored suspended particles four times higher than the normal level.
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