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	IRN's South East Asia Campaigns: San Roque: Press Release: Itogon Inter-Barangay Alliance. May 5, 2000. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		We, members of the Itogon Inter-Barangay Alliance, whose affiliates are distributed among seven of the nine barangays of Itogon and comprise a substantial portion of the Municipality's constituency, have long objected to the Council's support of the project and now ask that this support be withdrawn.
		While it is true that the DENR has already drafted such a plan, based on consultations with the Barangays of Itogon, it has failed to identify specific sources for the P700 million that it has budgeted for the plan's implementation.
		The Municipal Council of Itogon does not appear to be bothered by the DENR's powerlessness.
	www.irn.org /programs/sanroque/pr000505.html (875 words)

	Benguet Governor Vetoes Anti-Dam Vote (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Molintas said Itogon's Resolution 16 "is enough" for the national government to pursue the project, referring to the comment by opposition board members that the resolution has no legal and official backing from the three barangays that will be flooded by Agno River's back flow.
		Itogon's passage of Resolution 16 came after three years that the town government had been opposing the dam project.
		As for the national government's commitments toward Itogon which acted as a carrot that caused the Itogon council to pass Resolution 16, Molintas said he will remain vigilant to prevent the government from reneging.
	www.irn.org /programs/sanroque/benguet.html (447 words)

	CPA Welcomes Withdrawal of Endorsement of the San Roque Dam Project by the Municipal Council of Itogon
		In a session held last September 13, 2000, the council approved a resolution withdrawing its earlier endorsement of the dam project for unsubstantive compliance and non-implementation of the 17 conditions set by the council in July 1997 in exchange for endorsing the San Roque Dam Project.
		The CPA believes that the municipal council's decision is highly commendable as it reflects the persistent opposition of the dam-affected communities as well as concerned citizens of Itogon and their supporters.
		It is indeed a well-deserved victory for the people of Itogon that their government officials finally heeded their demand to stop the dam construction.
	www.philsol.nl /A00b/SRD-CPA-sep00.htm (551 words)

	Hazards of Corporate Mining in the Philippines
		Itogon is a municipality of Benguet province, 200 kms north of Manila.
		Itogon has been the site of corporate mining operations which BC started at the turn of the 20th century.
		According to IIB-A, a century of plunder of Itogon's mineral and forest resources, including that of water which is used in gold, copper and silver extraction, has left its environment devastated.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Action/press503.htm (1693 words)

	Women Speak Out on Mining: Philippines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Those were the days before a giant mining corporation in Itogon shifted in 1989 to open pit mining, a modern, heavily mechanised method of mining that boosts efficiency but leaves little room for small-scale operators and which takes a harsher toll on the environment.
		For Itogon's traditional miners however, mining is not just about the extraction of natural resources but a way of life.
		Still, activists won a small victory this month when the government said mining applications would be held in abeyance in the wake of a new law that recognises tribal groups' right to negotiate terms and conditions for the exploration of ancestral land.
	www.moles.org /ProjectUnderground/motherlode/gold/women2.html (1194 words)

	Philippines: Tobacco to Replace 'Grass' In Benguet
		ITOGON, Benguet -- The provincial government is seriously considering a change of smoke.
		Fifty farmers from Tuba and Itogon towns in Benguet, as well as upland areas in La Union, attended the five-month training.
		Itogon Mayor Mario Godio said the introduction of Virginia tobacco in his town was very important because of the financial setback caused by the withdrawal of mining companies in Itogon, the base of the country's oldest mining firms.
	www.mapinc.org /ctcnews/v05/n819/a04.html (447 words)

	Northern Mine Switching to Water \| Asia Water Wire
		The area is located in Antamok village in Itogon town, about seven kilometres from the city proper, which also means that a pipeline would have to be constructed.
		Residents of Itogon, meantime, say they should be the first priority of the project and want their livelihoods, displaced by the big mining activities, back.
		Frank Almoza, a youth leader of Loacan village in Itogon, said that their small-scale mining activities would be displaced by the reservoir.
	www.asiawaterwire.net /node/61 (1348 words)

	CPA statement
		Itogon, home to Ibaloi and Kankanaey ethno-linguistic groups, is one of the 13 municipalities of the province and it is this municipality that has hosted the most number of mining companies.
		The Itogon Suyoc Mines is a private Philippine minerals company whose properties cover an area of 2,896 hectares including an underground gold mine that has produced about one million ounces of gold and 40,000 ounces of silver from ore with an average gold grade of 6.9 g/t.
		Anvil may be on its toes to reactivate mining operations in Itogon through the Itogon Suyoc Resources Inc. The people of Itogon, however, have drawn experience and lessons from years of solidarity and resistance to destructive projects.
	www.cpaphils.org /hapit2006_3Qanvil.htm (1530 words)

	National Secretariat for Social Action - Justice & Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Many small-scale miners in Itogon work without the necessary government permits, which for them are too technical and many are reluctant to secure said documents since they believe that they are on their ancestral land anyway.
		At present, the Mayor of Itogon is forcing BC to solve the issue of tailing ponds waste spillage affecting the communities.
		A. The present economic conditions in Itogon, Benguet and Placer, Surigao del Norte mirror the myth that mining industry is a long-lasting source of income for the community and the local government.
	www.nassa.org.ph /publication/sparelegacy.php (4340 words)

	Sun.Star Baguio - Itogon's withdrawal of support to SRMP 'saddening'
		Perez said for Itogon alone, NPC has disbursed P400 million, which went to land claims, housing improvements, structure improvements, skills training for the affected residents and funding for their livelihood projects.
		The Itogon council claimed that the SRPC power purchase agreement contract shows "disturbing and anomalous provisions and scenarios," which include unqualified rights to use water resources raising possibility of abuse, government's obligation to pay the project even if no power is produced and inappropriate information on the actual operation of the reservoir area among others.
		Meanwhile, NPC-SRPC Itogon Project Coordinator Vincent Caluya revealed that P149.281 million has been disbursed for payment of land claims and only six unpaid claims due to unresolved ownership problem remain and that these will have to be acted upon by the courts.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/bag/2003/04/21/news/itogon.s.withdrawal.of.support.to.srmp.saddening..html (601 words)

	San Roque Dam Project
		This developed as the Itogon Inter-Barangay Alliance (IIBA) Sunday revealed that the Office of the Presidential Assistant on Indigenous People's Affair (Opa-ipa) reported that the people in Itogon are one in saying that they should never have consented to the dam because of the destruction of their ancestral land and loss of their ethnic communities.
		After the release of the Opa-ipa report, the IIBA in its fourth congress passed a resolution reiterating its opposition to the project and the inclusion of Itogon in the Lower Agno Integrated Watershed Reservation (LAIWMP).
		It was also reported that the NPC board has already approved the memorandum on the assignment of rights which will be used to pay the land claimants even as another supplemental memorandum will be drawn up detailing the computation and the classification of lands to be paid as suggested by the NPC Finance Department.
	www.philsol.nl /news/01/SRDP-sep01.htm (1674 words)

	G.R. No. L-17739
		The testimonies of complainant's witnesses are clear that during the hearing of the certification case in Itogon, Gelladoga, plant engineer and former labor relations officer of the respondent company, asked Baldo not to testify therein are the promise that he will be reinstated.
		Considering everything, we are convinced that because of Baldo's refusal to accede to the demand of his employer not to testify in the certification proceeding mentioned above, his Case was "dropped" by the grievance committee of the union and management, and consequently, he failed to be reinstated in the company.
		The petitioner, in this appeal, maintains that it was the Itogon Labor Union that dropped the case of Baldo regarding the 30-day notice of separation because Baldo brought his case to a rival union of the Itogon Labor Union, so that the petitioner should not be charged with unfair labor practice.
	www.lawphil.net /judjuris/juri1964/dec1964/gr_17739_1964.html (1040 words)

	Dams, Indigenous People and Vulnerable Ethic Minorities: A Case Study on the Ibaloy People and the Agno River Basin, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		This was the Binga Dam in Barangay Tinongdan, Itogon.
		For the barangays of Itogon upstream of the proposed San Roque dam, the resource users include not only the residents of these barangays but also others coming from as far as Pangasinan who seasonally access the resources through gold panning, pasturing of cattle, fishing and hunting.
		In a televised interview of one of the women barrio folks in Dalupirip, Itogon, she articulated how her people will feel if they were to be driven off their ancestral abode to give way to the San Roque Dam.
	www.dams.org /kbase/submissions/showsub.php?rec=SOC197 (12524 words)

	Binga Dam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		From Baguio, the hydroelectric plant can be accessed through Itogon or by taking the same route that leads to Ambuklao Dam in Bokod.
		The route through Itogon is much shorter and has a better maintained roadway.
		The length of the reservoir at its widest portion is about 2 kilometers and the distance of backwater from the dam measures 10 kilometers.
	www.cityofpines.com /binga.html (320 words)

	Water war?
		During the 101 years that have elapsed since the company established itself in Itogon, it has repeatedly had to contend with the hostility of local communities to its plans and activities.
		The first resistance that the company had to contend with in Itogon was waged in 1921 by the tongtong of Gumatdang.
		Some of the permits cover major springs and rivers – for example, the Bua and Virac springs in Itogon, the springs within the Voice of America reservation along the boundary between Itogon and Baguio, and the Amliang and Badiwan springs in Tuba; the Antamok and Laboy rivers in Itogon, and the Galiano river in Tuba.
	www.cpaphils.org /campaigns/water-war_4731.htm (2742 words)

	Bulatlat.com
		Underlying the Itogon controversy is an increasing trend toward a new form of water privatization where the country’s abundant yet finite water resources have gotten the interest of profit-seeking companies like Benguet Corp.
		He likewise mentions the case in Itogon as well as a similar project in Mindoro Oriental where sources of surface and ground water are being privatized for eventual private distribution.
		He adds that the only instance when the Board denies water permits is when their study of the ecology of the place where water is to be extracted no longer permits further extraction, indicating a critical water ecology in the area.
	www.bulatlat.com /news/3-48/3-48-waterowner.html (1598 words)

	BC’s water unsafe — Itogon elders 05-08-14 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Tuding in nearby Itogon in Benguet, confirmed earlier reports that the water Benguet Corporation (BC) is selling to the Baguio Water District (BWD) is unsafe and contaminated with mine effluents.
		He added that residents in Itogon could not even use the said water for boiling beans because it is unable to cook the said Cordillera staple.
		The project involves collecting water from Itogon rivers and streams that traverse populated and agricultural areas, and impounding of surface water in an abandoned open pit area.
	www.nordis.net /news/2005/ndw050814/ndw050814_05bwsp.htm (658 words)

	Human barricades save 3 Itogon homes 05-12-04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		ITOGON, Benguet (Nov. 24) — Human barricades that began on Nov. 13 and which saved three houses from demolition at Sitio Estacion in Brgy.
		Ampucao here were lifted today, the Itogon Inter-Barangay Alliance (IIBA) spokesperson announced in an interview with Nordis.
		Being Itogon’s second largest barangay in land area and the largest in population, Ampucao is home to four mining companies, namely BC, ISMI, Philex and Omico mines.
	www.nordis.net /news/2005/ndw051204/ndw051204_08itogon.htm (416 words)

	The Mining News
		The conversion of 440 open pit mine of Benguet Corp. in Itogon into a reservoir has become a legal and social precedent for "sustainable alternatives to old mines after mine life," Leopoldo Sison, Benguet Corp. vice president for the water development program, said during a public hearing here.
		Benguet Corp., the country's oldest mining firm, has won a bid to supply the city with 50,000 cubic meters of water each day from the old 440 open pit mines, but the Baguio government is contesting the project due to concerns over the potability of run-off rain water that is collected from highly mineralized land.
		The Mining News is intended as a free public service, and is not for commercial use or gain.
	www.theminingnews.org /news.cfm?newsID=1311 (307 words)

	Australian Mining, Mining News, Jobs and Employment, Engineering Supplies, Minerals, Perth Australia Mining Equipment, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Itogon properties cover an area of 2,896 hectares and are located 12km to the southeast of Baguio City and approximately 200 km north of Manila, the capital of the Philippines.
		The properties also include the Itogon underground gold mine which, up until it was put on care and maintenance in 1996, produced approximately one million ounces of gold and 400,000 ounces of silver from ore with an average gold grade of 6.9 grams per tonne (g/t).
		The Philex Mine located 10 km to the southwest of the Itogon properties has historical production of 5 million ounces of gold, 5 million ounces of silver and almost 2 million tonnes of copper.
	www.minebox.com /story.asp?articleId=8127 (493 words)

	The New Cordillera Online - Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A number of activities were scheduled on this 3-day celebration with the performance of traditional/indigenous rites on the municipal grounds as its opening activity.
		A concelebrated thanksgiving mass at the provincial gym opened the second day, followed by the Agro-Industrial Trade Fair held at the provincial ground which was participated in by the different barangays of Itogon.
		Itogon, by the way, is composed of nine (9) barangays namely: Ampucao, Dalupirip, Gumatdang, Loacan, Poblacion, Tinongdan, Tuding, Ucab and Virac.
	www.cordilleraonline.com /content/view/165/251 (528 words)

	Sun.Star Baguio - Itogon public high school goes online
		ITOGON, Benguet -- Students and teachers of a public high school in Benguet was connected online after Smart Communications inaugurated its Smart Schools teachers learning resource facility in the Alejo M. Pacalso Memorial National High School (AMPMNHS) last Saturday.
		The school is now connected to the Internet via Smart Bro, the telecommunication firm's wireless broadband service, free of charge for one year.
		AMPMNHS is located in Bua, Tuding, Itogon, Benguet, or just seven kilometers away from Baguio.
	www.sunstar.com.ph /static/bag/2006/08/01/news/itogon.public.high.school.goes.online.html (606 words)

	Local Government Unit: Municipality of Itogon
		Politically subdivided into nine (9) barangays, Itogon has a total land area of 49, 657 hectares based on the 1996 validated data.
		Generally inhabited by Ibalois, Itogon’s main source of livelihood is mining.
		Secondary to mining is agriculture, having a total land area of 3,740.54 hectares.
	www.itogon.gov.ph (128 words)

	Mining firms' shift to other industries faces questions - Jun. 17, 2004
		Itogon Vice Mayor Aloysius Kato, a newly elected board member of Benguet, said the Itogon municipal government wants to settle these legal issues because it has started to attract new investments into the town which has hosted Benguet Corp., the oldest mining firm, for over 100 years.
		In resolutions filed by the Itogon council and the Benguet provincial board, the officials also directed the MGB, an attached agency of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, to determine whether these operations still cover huge mineral deposits.
		Kato said Itogon welcomes new industries to set up in the old mining communities and has acknowledged that old mines are leading that shift.
	www.inq7.net /reg/2004/jun/17/reg_7-1.htm (516 words)

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		Based on the report of the power firm's Luzon generation project's office, it was shown that as of March 2003, infrastructure funds totalling P42.5 million have already been disbursed to the province of Benguet, municipality of Itogon, and Barangays Ampucao and Dalupirip.
		It was further noted that a supplementary fund of P22 million had already been allocated to Benguet and Itogon for additional infrastructure projects proposed by the local government.
		NPC said the allocation was used for the construction of roads, water supply system, school buildings, barangay halls, purchase of vehicles, hand-held radios and computers.
	my.reset.jp /~adachihayao/030418L.htm (420 words)

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