Asia’s EVolution: In the Mountains of Mindanao, a Copper Fight with Global Stakes Fuelled by Electric Vehicle

Asia’s EVolution: In the mountains of Mindanao, a copper fight with global stakes fuelled by electric vehicle

In this first part of a series on electric vehicles in Asia, CNA examines how one of Southeast Asia’s largest untapped copper deposits in Mindanao could boost the Philippines’ role in the global EV supply chain.

Asia’s EVolution: Inside the fight over the Philippines’ underground copper riches fuelled by electric vehicles

“They will leave a problem of acid mine drainage there in the open pit, in the waste rock facility, in the tailings ponds. It’s a permanent footprint. It’s a perpetual footprint,” said Bishop Cirilo Casicas of the Diocese of Marbel in South Cotabato. The Catholic Church has been an active voice against the mine for many years. Rene Pamplona, the programme coordinator of civil society organisation Convergence of Initiatives for Environmental Just…