The Mining Law was amended for two years, and the Ministry of Economy was approved by the Environmental Group. It only worried about the interests of mining industry and did not care about human life and ecology.

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The Economic Committee of the Legislative Yuan reviewed the draft amendment to the Mining Law on the 9th, but no consensus could be reached on whether the extension of mining rights required re-application for the approval of mining land, and whether the extension of mining rights required the consent of indigenous people. Liao Guodong, chairman of the meeting, announced that it would be retried.

In the face of the results of the draft amendment to the Mining Law the day before yesterday, the Earth Citizens Foundation held a press conference to directly approve it, and both the ruling and opposition legislators reached a consensus, but the Executive Yuan and the Ministry of Economic Affairs still considered only the interests of the mining industry. ignoring that the purpose of this amendment is to amend the hegemonic provisions of wireless extension of "exemption from environmental assessment,"exemption from notification," and "exemption from consent," the provisions are still retained in major disputes and have not been examined one by one.

In June 2016, people marched in Kaidao to demand a change in the mining law, but the Asian mud mine was still dug deeper and deeper. After director Zeppelin died in June 2017, 210000 people signed to amend the mining law. Huang Jingting, commissioner of the Earth Citizens Foundation, pointed out: "all this shows the consensus on civil reform, but now, two years later, the amendment is still stuck in the Economic Committee of the Legislative Yuan, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs does not give in to key provisions." The Legislative Yuan is requested to review the draft amendment to the Mining Law as soon as possible in this session, so that the article-by-article discussion can be more fully discussed; and before the amendment is completed, the extension of the limit must be frozen, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs shall not allow the extension of the limit.

(left) legislator Gao Yun to use (right) Huang Jingting, Commissioner of the Earth Citizen Foundation (Photography / Liu Yixin)

The extension of mining rights requires the re-approval of mining land

In addition to the dispute over the agreement of aborigines, there has also been a lot of discussion on whether it is necessary to re-apply for the approval of mining land. Legislator Zhou Chen Xiuxia directly approved that when reviewing the mining law, all members agreed that the approval of mining land needed to be more stringent and re-approved, but in the end all the provisions were retained. "it is basically the ruling party's insistence on escort."

When reviewing the law, the Ministry of Economic Affairs pointed out that the re-approval of mining land would be time-consuming but unnecessary. The Earth Citizens Foundation said, "this shows that the Ministry of Economic Affairs is still worried about the interests of the miners, regardless of the landowners affected by mining, the wealth safety of tribal residents, and the ecological environment of mountain, forest, soil and water."

Huang Jingting stressed that the mine extension limit must be re-approved for mining land, and at the stage of mining land approval, operators should also be required to put forward mine closure plans; to obtain the consent of owners of land and buildings and other right holders; to consult environmental protection, soil and water conservation, land use and other relevant authorities; to obtain the consent of the land use authority (Ministry of the Interior) Located in environmentally sensitive areas or up to a certain scale, environmental assessment must be carried out; 21 articles of the primitive Law should be carried out on aboriginal land.

The extension of the limit before the completion of the Mining Law Amendment Law should be frozen continuously.

The amendment to the mining law is a long way off, and the mining industry may be forced to apply for the extension of the limit first. therefore, legislators and ring groups have also proposed that the approval of the extension of the limit should be frozen before the amendment of the mining law is passed. At present, the extension of the limit is frozen until May 30 this year, and today it will be frozen in the Legislative Yuan through a temporary proposal until the end of this year.

Tsai Ya-Cheng points out that in December last year, the proposal to freeze the extension of the limit was not passed at that time, but Asia had already applied for an extension of the limit for 20 years. "it is not easy to spend time to amend the law to solve the unreasonable situation, but real change will have to wait 20 years later." It was stressed that an extension freeze should be proposed in the interim proposal.

Legislator Gao Zhipeng also said that the Executive Yuan version of the Mining Law is "retrogressive." not only do the conditions for the additional EIA be reduced, but the indigenous people's right of consent also has no compulsory effect, stressing that in addition to the political Yuan version, legislators can also propose a member version, "it is not necessary to pass the Executive Yuan version, and the committee has many legislative versions, which will choose the best ones and will not accept them all." Gao also promised to arrange a review in the shortest possible time, and to freeze the extension case at today's Economic Committee until the end of the year.

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