Omigosh! More than 6,500 trees are to be removed from the hills of Angono, Rizal, in the outskirts of Metro Manila. This is to give way to the expansion of a giant cement firm, according to earth activist and former party-list congressman Angelo Palmones. The tree removal could cause more floods in Rizal, Laguna, and Metro Manila – of the magnitude of 2009 Storm Ondoy, 2012 Habagat, and 2013 Typhoon Maring. The Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources consents to the deforestation. It’s as if the agency never learned from recent sad lessons. The grave floods in usually spared areas of San Pedro, Biñan, and Sta. Rosa in Laguna were caused by residential and industrial subdivision developments and waterway clogging in adjacent Cavite province. For, messing around with one part of the ecosystem messes up the whole. * * * Catch Sapol radio show, Saturdays, 8-10 a.m., DWIZ, (882-AM). Gotcha archives on Facebook: https://facebook/pages/Jarius-Bondoc/1376602159218459, or The STAR website philstar/author/Jarius%20Bondoc/GOTCHA E-mail: jariusbondoc@gmail
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 21:22:34 +0000
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