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LEGAZPI CITY, Albay – “You can't catch anything anymore, the water is dark and it smells very bad.” In his more than five decades of fishing, Rodrigo Guerrero, 77, recalled how abundant the sea was before the Albay Agro-Industrial Development Corporation (Alindeco)...
Dumping hazardous waste of developed countries like the US signifies “shifting their own waste burdens to countries” like the Philippines.
"The worst kind of trash is the government that surrenders Philippine sovereignty. They can't even manage their own waste, yet why do they accept waste from foreigners?”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
"It's not a question of who dumped the toxic waste. The question is whose toxic waste was dumped into our territory. Though Glenn Defense remains accountable for the act, the biggest accountability goes to the US and Aquino governments." – Rep. Emmi de Jesus, Gabriela Women's Party
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com No way, no to using incinerators to solve Metro Manila's growing garbage crisis. The Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment is vehemently opposed to the proposal of Metro Manila Development Authority chairman Francis...
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