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Mindoro residents to push hunger strike vs mining [Philippines]
Mindoro residents have decided not to lift their hunger strike even after the Department of Environment and Nature Resources…suspended for 90 days the controversial environmental compliance certificate (ECC) for large-scale mining in a watershed and ancestral domain area…[T]he protestors did not consider the ECC suspension as a complete triumph…[M}any of the hunger strikers remained in front of DENR offices to demand a complete withdrawal of the ECC…Intex must prove the social acceptability of the mining project, [Mindoro] Governor Panaligan [said]…