By: Nestor Corrales - 07:53 PM March
20, 2018
President Rodrigo Duterte has
ordered Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to revoke
the licenses of mining companies that are supplying explosives to communist
rebel groups.
Presidential Spokesperson Harry
Roque said Duterte gave the instruction during the National Security Council
Executive Committee meeting in Malacañang on Monday and ended before
dawn Tuesday.
“The President directed the
Department of Environment and National Resources to revoke the licenses,
permits of mining companies violating explosive handling rules or reported to
be supplying explosives to Communist Terrorist groups,” Roque said in a Palace
briefing.
The “military and police who also
found violating laws and explosives will face automatic expulsion,” he added.
Duterte threatened in November 2017
that mining companies paying revolutionary taxes to the New People’s Army would
face closure.
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