a local voice

Eventhough this guy is completely wrong with his comments on environmental impacts of open cut vs underground mining methods - on the basis of his position and native tongue he may have been a better choice to be recruited by SMI as the local mouthpiece ahead of the Tagalog speaking alien spindoctors they used.

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?publicationSubCategoryId=66&articleId=769029

But either way, I reckon the advocates should cut out the lies and false propaganda to focus on the real issue. Which at its core is simply - and despite best practice mitigation measures - there is a large environmental penalty in return for a larger financial reward. Will you accept that? However, given the structure of Philippine society with regard to religion, security, nationalism, populism, fuedalism, tribalism, stupidism etc, etc, etc, the vote for acceptance has to be almost unanimous.