Environmentalists condemned Executive Order 122 which declares all critical mineral projects as national priorities and accelerates the privatization of government owned critical mining assets. ..Kalikasan People s Network for the Environment, a progressive environmentalist group, explains that the policy will rapidly expand the extraction of Philippine critical minerals with most cases resulting in the destruction of the environment and the displacment of the most marginalized communities in the country. . .The protest was held simultaneously as the Mining Philippines 2026 Conference which hosted top-level public officials that environmentalist orgs say are complicit in the destructi - ZUMAp220 20261027_zip_p220_001

Environmentalists condemned Executive Order 122 which declares all critical mineral projects as national priorities and accelerates the privatization of government owned critical mining assets. ..Kalikasan People s Network for the Environment, a progressive environmentalist group, explains that the policy will rapidly expand the extraction of Philippine critical minerals with most cases resulting in the destruction of the environment and the displacment of the most marginalized communities in the country. . .The protest was held simultaneously as the Mining Philippines 2026 Conference which hosted top-level public officials that environmentalist orgs say are complicit in the destructi - ZUMAp220 20261027_zip_p220_001

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October 27, 2026, Pasay City, Metro Manila, Philippines: Environmentalists condemned Executive Order 122 which declares all critical mineral projects as national priorities and accelerates the privatization of government owned critical mining assets. ..Kalikasan People s Network for the Environment, a progressive environmentalist group, explains that the policy will rapidly expand the extraction of Philippine critical minerals with most cases resulting in the destruction of the environment and the displacment of the most marginalized communities in the country. . .The protest was held simultaneously as the Mining Philippines 2026 Conference which hosted top-level public officials that environmentalist orgs say are complicit in the destructi - ZUMAp220 20261027_zip_p220_001

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