When Gina Lopez burst on the scene like some sort of environmental berserker, quite a few people applauded her passion and New Age enthusiasm. Keen watchers of the insider game in government viewed it as an interesting example of good cop, bad cop. A zealot can always be neutralized by the bureaucracy, as she quickly found out when the Executive Secretary, in typical bureaucratic style, blandly put the implementation of some of her decisions on hold.
Miners should walk the talk
http://opinion.inquirer.net/103765/miners-walk-talk
The rational use of Philippine mineral resources
http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Opinion&title=the-rational-use-of-philippine-mineral-resources&id=144844
‘Resource curse’
http://opinion.inquirer.net/103965/resource-course