Apeco backers in rally: Don’t stop progress
Don’t stop progress and the creation of jobs by the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (Apeco).
Don’t stop progress and the creation of jobs by the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (Apeco).
At least 700 farmers, fishermen, Dumagat and Agta supporting the establishment of the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (Apeco) in Casiguran, Aurora, are marching today (Friday) to the capital town of Baler to call for the continuation of the project.
Exhausted but determined, 120 farmers, fishermen and Agta villagers marched for the eighth day in protest of the creation of a 12,923-hectare economic zone that they said would displace some 3,000 families in Casiguran, Aurora.
Casiguran town in Aurora stands to lose an annual average of 5,000 metric tons of palay and 12.4 million coconuts should the national government allow the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (Apeco) to proceed there, the Task Force Anti-Apeco (TFAA) said on Sunday.
Indigenous people, farmers and fisherfolk have turned to the Commission on Human Rights to get their voices heard in their struggle against the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (APECO) project, which they said has been threatening to displace them, remove their sources of livelihood and disrupt their peaceful lives.
Congress has approved a slash in the budget of the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (Apeco) in northern Aurora to P332.5 million from the original P3.565 billion. Groups opposing the operation of Apeco, which, once fully developed, could be the third largest ecozone in the country, hailed the reduction as their “tactical victory.” But [...]
Residents opposing the Aurora Pacific Economic Zone and Freeport (Apeco) in Casiguran, Aurora, on Wednesday asked the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the laws that created the zone.
