Residents of Luba municipality in Abra reported a fish kill that occurred along the Abra River last 26-27 January 2006. They suspect that Lepanto Consolidated Mining Corporation located upstream released mine tailings at the height of Typhoon Agaton and thus caused the fish kill downstream.
Continue Reading Add comment February 14th, 2006
Environment Watch: Karayan Abra is a publication of STARM. This Ebook contains a comprehensive profile of the Abra River, a collection of facts and figures about corporate mining in the Philppines, environmental studies and much more.
Continue Reading Add comment October 24th, 2005
By Josephine Aries L. Dulay, MS En E*
Department of Chemical Engineering
Saint Louis University College of Engineering and Architecture
The rapidly growing population, increasing urbanization and advancing technology contributed much to the pollution we are now exposed to. Human activities overloaded the amount of materials and changed the nature of contaminants entering into rivers, streams and lakes that have natural mechanism of self-purification. Thus the assimilating and sustaining capacity of rivers today show signs of stressful conditions. The growing environmental concern led to the investigation of the condition of the Abra River System flowing from the provinces of Benguet, Abra and Ilocos Sur and exiting to the South China Sea.
Continue Reading 1 comment October 23rd, 2005
Welcome to STARM Website. We enjoin all concerned individuals, environmental groups, people’s organizations, schools, churches and sympathetic government units to spell the difference for our beloved Abra River.
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The Save the Abra River Movement aims to expose and oppose the environmental destruction brought about by corporate mining and other commercial endeavors which trample on the rights and livelihood of peasants and indigenous peoples. More
