OceanaGold's petition with the Philippine Court of Appeals has been denied for lack of merit. On December 29th, 2009, OceanaGold had filed the petition with the Court of Appeals seeking to annul the order of the Regional Trial Court (lower court) that had restrained the mining company from demolishing the houses of the Indigenous Peoples in Didipio.

At a special assembly in late February, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), the country’s largest and most powerful Indigenous organization, decided to launch a "progressive escalation" of anti-government protests, and called others to join them in opposing President Rafael Correa’s "neoliberal and colonialist" policies. CONAIE sees the president of betraying the principles of the alliance that helped him come to power.