Because the posts were TOUd for off topic. Yet anyone following would know the Paje window for the ECC closed on Friday and now it is anti-mining advocate Lopez to grant it.
Duterte is not pro-mining. He banned it in his own jurisdiction. Appointed Lopez to DENR. How more obvious does one need be. I believe he will tolerate existing operators if they are compliant, and comments along those lines are misrepresented to be pro-mining. FWIW - there are two other mining expats i know posting on other Philippines based stocks who also share the sentiment. Plus everyone else in country.
I see no chance for my interests under Duterte and I think it would be a waste of time for me to progress otherwise. If RTG can get an approval, any approval, it will be a miracle, and I will be well impressed. For a tenement the current bungled mess would need to be fixed up or replaced, and clearly the initial priority of the incoming admin is compliance. And for an ECC, Lopez would have to make a decision that open cut mining is environmentally sustainable. But the duration of the appointments of either of them could be cut short by any number of means.
