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PARTIDO KALIKASAN SUPPORTS 25- YEAR MORATORIUM OF MINING IN THE ENTIRE PALAWAN ISLAND PROVINCE.
Palawan deforestation can be attributed to mining of metallic
minerals on a large and small scale mining activities in the natural
forest areas of Palawan . We are however concerned of the reduction
in the estimated forest cover of Palawan from 55.84% in the year 1998
to 53.24% in 2005. This negative change is very significant,
considering that Palawan have started from a pristine state of our
forest areas to substantial depletion of forest cover before the 1992
total commercial logging ban was implemented in the SEP Law. While
there are an ongoing establishment of conservation corridors and
conservation based enterprises and a monitoring system to make
sure that our conservation program has a positive impact on
biodiversity, there are also an on-going mining activities in Palawan
which resulted to a reality of increasing rate of deforestation.
Palawan has been described by many names, called beautiful land, virgin
island, haven of wildlife, habitat of prehistoric man, land of
beautiful harbor and the ‘LAST FRONTIER’. Palawan Region is one of the
Top Megadiversity in the country, a designated Man and Biosphere
Reserve, with two internationally World Heritage Sites, an Endemic Bird
Area, and a Philippine Priority Area for Biodiversity Conservation.
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 ACTION ALERT: Get your congressmen/women to act on this asap.
The Alternative Budget Initiative (ABI) - Environment Cluster demanded early this last quarter for the immediate release of the 2008 budget for the Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) program as the budget hearings for the 2009 national budget begins. The P115 million CBFM budget is an augmentation fund that the group succesfully lobbied for this year's allocation. This fund have not been fully released even as we begin the last month of 2008. The Partido Kalikasan Institute support the ABI initiative and calls on alllocal PK organizations working on CBFM and other CSOs working on this area of work to follow up their respective congressmen/women to secure this funding for CBFM.
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PAPAYAGAN BA NATIN ITO?
BATAAN NUCLEAR POWER
PLANT (BNPP) REVIVAL
Congressman
Mark O. Cojuangco of Tarlac and Congresswoman Herminia Roman of Bataan
wants the re-commissioning of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in
Morong, Bataan. Over the past
two days, the Committee on Energy of the House of Representatives have
conducted public consultations on House Bill 4631. The proponent argues
that BNPP is necessary because its 670MW capacity can cover 20% of the
expected shortfall of 3Gigawatt by 2012 in our growing national energy
needs. They also argue that since there is no carbon emission, this
will lower the countries overall carbon footprint and contribute to
climate change mitigation.
READ and STUDY the bill. Click HERE
Partido
Kalikasan members are in the process of consensus-building to agree on
a common position and action on this issue. To join a PK Online Forum
on this issue, click HERE
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The
Court of Appeals’ wing in Cagayan de Oro would take one more year
to decide whether the ordinance of Davao City that banned aerial
spraying in the vast banana plantations of the city is constitutional
or not. Thus, groups that oppose the chemical-application practice
have protested this and vowed to stage more and more actions against
“how the court is taking its sweet time while the people in the
area are left suffering the deadly drifts of the chemicals showering
down them.”
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 Green Alert Negros Coordinator Mark Cervantes writes an update about the latest hearing of the court case against PNOC-EDC seeking a temporary restraining order (TRO) for the geothermal project that will encroach inside the Mt. Kanlaon, a protected area. Green Alert is part of the effort to facilitate the formation of a local Partido Kalikasan group in the island of Negros.
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