Finance Secretary Carlos Dominguez III said Monday the inter-agency Mining Industry Coordinating Council will review mining operations in the country every two years. Dominguez lauded the MICC for starting the “fact-finding and science-based” review of mining operations across the country for the first time since the inception of the multisectoral oversight body five years ago. 79, the body had failed―until now―to perform one of its main tasks under the law, which was to carry out a multi-stakeholder review of mining operations once every two years. It’s the first time ever that we are going to do this review,” Dominguez said at the recent MICC meeting. He predicted that “after two or three cycles,” MICC would have already covered the review of all mining sites in the entire country.

Source: The Standard October 30, 2017 12:56 UTC