“CREATION IS a gift of God. Hence, the need for all of us to unite our efforts to restore and preserve the beauty and purity of the cosmos.”
Thus spake the Most Rev. Paciano B. Aniceto, archibishop of San Fernando, as he enjoined local government executives to stop passing the blame on one another and instead coordinate their efforts to strictly follow and implement environmental laws.
Principal of such laws is Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2001 which outlawed all open and controlled dumpsites and required all local government units to establish materials recovery facilities and to ensure the segregation of wastes starting from the household level.
Pursuant to that law, the Central Luzon office of the Environmental Management Bureau last month issued a closure order on 16 open dumpsites in Pampanga.
City of San Fernando Mayor Oscar S. Rodriguez and Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan instantly denied having open dumpsites in their areas of responsibility.
Rodriguez’s denial was proved a “big lie” by photographs in this paper showing the continuing dumping of unsegregated garbage at the continuously operating open dumpsite in Barangay Lara near the eastern lateral section of the FVR Megadike.
The Most Rev. Pablo Virgilio David, auxiliary bishop of San Fernando, himself has affirmed that open dumpsites are “everywhere in Pampanga,” that “every local government unit has one.”
The City of San Fernando has also been blamed by Macabebe Mayor Annette Flores-Balgan for the dumping of toxic industrial wastes that devastated the town’s fishing industry.
Now calls Apu Ceto for all concerned to get their act together, for everyone to prove himself truly a good steward of God’s gift: “We need to return to the original spirit and objective of the law and strictly follow the provisions.”
The good archbishop has spoken.
We hope there will be no denial coming from you-know-who this time. Or risk being cursed for life. Mapapa la, as religious Kapampangans put it.
Thus spake the Most Rev. Paciano B. Aniceto, archibishop of San Fernando, as he enjoined local government executives to stop passing the blame on one another and instead coordinate their efforts to strictly follow and implement environmental laws.
Principal of such laws is Republic Act 9003 or the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2001 which outlawed all open and controlled dumpsites and required all local government units to establish materials recovery facilities and to ensure the segregation of wastes starting from the household level.
Pursuant to that law, the Central Luzon office of the Environmental Management Bureau last month issued a closure order on 16 open dumpsites in Pampanga.
City of San Fernando Mayor Oscar S. Rodriguez and Angeles City Mayor Edgardo Pamintuan instantly denied having open dumpsites in their areas of responsibility.
Rodriguez’s denial was proved a “big lie” by photographs in this paper showing the continuing dumping of unsegregated garbage at the continuously operating open dumpsite in Barangay Lara near the eastern lateral section of the FVR Megadike.
The Most Rev. Pablo Virgilio David, auxiliary bishop of San Fernando, himself has affirmed that open dumpsites are “everywhere in Pampanga,” that “every local government unit has one.”
The City of San Fernando has also been blamed by Macabebe Mayor Annette Flores-Balgan for the dumping of toxic industrial wastes that devastated the town’s fishing industry.
Now calls Apu Ceto for all concerned to get their act together, for everyone to prove himself truly a good steward of God’s gift: “We need to return to the original spirit and objective of the law and strictly follow the provisions.”
The good archbishop has spoken.
We hope there will be no denial coming from you-know-who this time. Or risk being cursed for life. Mapapa la, as religious Kapampangans put it.
