DAVAO CITY—Environment Secretary Gina Lopez on Thursday said she would initiate a review of the 1995 Philippine Mining Act that opened the country's mining sector to 100-percent foreign ownership, which she described as "treasonous and should not have been passed at all."
"It must be reviewed," Lopez said, citing a recent statement of Jesuit priest Joel Tabora, president of Ateneo de Davao University, about the mining law.
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