On 29 June 2024, the San Miguel Corporation, operating through its subsidiary Bricktree Properties, allegedly dispatched 16 armed and masked individuals who harassed the community of 130 families who are mostly seaweed farmers of Molbog indegenous peoples’ descent residing in Sitio Marihangin. Shots were allegedly fired to intimidate the residents who were resisting.

Over the course of the next years, San Miguel Corporation plans to develop a 25,000-hectare white beach tourism area. It has already constructed an airport on the 11,000 hectares of Bugsuk Island and has cleared the mangroves to make way for a 20-km long white beach.

The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre invited San Miguel Corporation to respond; it did not.