Environment
According to the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2000, all controlled dumpsites should have been closed in February 2006 and yet the Quezon City government operated the said waste disposal facility until December 31, 2010. Currently, the Payatas waste disposal facility is called a “sanitary” landfill.
Government officials and the mainstream media repeatedly claim that there is no possibility that the nuclear radiation from Japan will reach the Philippines and that the radiation leak is minimal and pose no significant health risks. This is gross misrepresentation of facts.
Progressive environmental groups have expressed high expectations now that other sectors, particularly the Catholic Church, are urging President Noynoy Aquino to form a body similar to the Truth Commission that will look into the long standing charges regarding the Arroyo administration’s cases of environmental plunder and destruction.
“Environmental groups and other sectors have long demanded for Gloria Arroyo her cohorts be …
MANILA — The local government unit of South Cotabato recently passed its Environment Code banning open pit mining in the province.
Today, more than 12,000 students, farmers, indigenous peoples, environmentalists and members of civil society organizations gathered in Koronadal City to rally behind the passage of the environment code.
Catholic Bishop Dinualdo D. Gutierrez, DD called on South Cotabato Governor Daisy …
On December 3, 1984, twenty-seven tons of lethal pesticide fumes leaked from Union Carbides factory in Bhopal, India. The leak immediately killed about 8,000 people and injured more than 500,000. Tens of thousands have died from the toxic exposure in the years since, and the death toll continues to rise as a result of long-term effects.
In commemoration of …
Greenpeace today challenged Bayer to stop contaminating the worlds rice supply with GMOs (genetically modified organisms), during a forum on rice genetics sponsored by the giant agrochemical company and hosted by IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) in Manila.
Fr. Roberto Reyes, a staff member of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), is one of the 25 people who joined the protestors–two of whom are Catholic priests and sixteen of whom are Mangyans; as well as seven others. The group has pledged to go on a hunger strike until their demands are met.
Iloilo City, 21 October 2009- Greenpeace activists and Iloilo residents are urging the local government to pull the plug on a plan to operate a coal-fired power plant in this city. The group calls the illegal, premature back-filling of the proposed site, despite the obvious environmental impacts it will create and strong public opposition to the project, as stupid, especially …
ENVIRONMENT The news of a United Kingdom firm, Pacific Bio-Fields Holdings Plc., acquiring 400,000 hectares of land in northern Luzon which it can use for 50 years for free may be staggering but not surprising, according to green groups.