Nepal-like flood risk looms over South Cotabato’s Tampakan project

KORONADAL CITY – An official warned that the thriving of illegal ‘banlas’ or hydraulic mining operations in low-lying areas of the controversial Tampakan project, Southeast Asia’s largest undeveloped copper and gold minefield, could trigger catastrophic flash floods similar to the disaster in Nepal. Neil Ryan Escobillo, barangay captain of Pulabato in Tampakan, South Cotabato, cited