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Badeo villagers slam illegal drillings

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KIBUNGAN—Indigenous peoples in this remote village are now up in arms against the alleged illegal drilling activities being conducted by a newly registered local power corporation without the IPs’ free and prior informed consent (FPIC) and pertinent permits from the local government and concerned government agencies.

Concerned local residents questioned the arrival of various units of drilling equipment of a Baguio-based exploration company commissioned by the COHECO Badeo, a newly registered local power corporation, which is planning to put up a 500-megawatt hydropower plant in the said village when there had been no actual consultations with the affected indigenous peoples.

COHECO Badeo has a pending application for the issuance of a pre-development service contract with the energy department which will be the basis of the conduct of FPIC by the National Commission on Indigenous Peoples (NCIP) to ascertain whether the indigenous peoples and indigenous cultural communities favour the put up of the hydro plant in their ancestral domain.

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