Beware of toxic huts for ‘Pabasa’
By Jeannette I. Andrade
Makati residents be warned: Participating in the traditional “Pabasa” this Holy Week may be good for your soul but not for your health.
Makati residents be warned: Participating in the traditional “Pabasa” this Holy Week may be good for your soul but not for your health.
An independent investigation initiated by the Subic Bay Freeport Chamber of Commerce has concluded that a US Navy contractor violated Philippine laws when it dumped waste from an American ship outside Subic waters in October.
Two BP rig supervisors and a former BP executive pleaded not guilty Wednesday to criminal charges stemming from the deadly Deepwater Horizon rig explosion and the company’s response to the massive 2010 spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) has suspended the operations of a US Navy contractor that is undergoing investigation for dumping hazardous waste into Philippine waters.
Partylist lawmakers are calling on the committees on natural resources and ecology at the House of Representatives to look into the alleged dumping of toxic waste done by a US Navy contractor within Philippine waters.
The city government of Dasmariñas in Cavite sued a waste treatment company for the illegal disposal of more than 200 drums of hazardous chemicals in vacant lots in the city. Solchem Philippines Inc., a wastewater treatment facility based in Las Piñas City, was accused of violating the Toxic Substances and Hazardous Wastes in the complaint [...]
The provincial government has rewarded with jobs and cash awards three plant workers who leaked video footage which confirmed that a chemical waste treatment facility here had been polluting local waterways.
The Cavite provincial government on Monday is contacting private waste treatment facilities that could treat and dispose of the toxic substance contained in more than 200 metal drums, which authorities found in Dasmariñas City over the weekend.
BACOLOD CITY—The New People’s Army (NPA) on Sunday claimed responsibility for last week’s raid on a mining compound owned by Philex Gold Mining Corp. in Barangay Nabulao, Sipalay City. In a statement, Andrea Guerrero, spokesperson of the NPA’s Armando Sumayang Command, accused Philex of dumping toxic wastes in Mantuboy Creek and Bacuyangan and Sipalay Rivers. [...]
Amid the deluge of imported used electronic goods and junk in the local market, environment groups are renewing calls for the ratification of the Basel Ban Amendment, a treaty which prohibits toxic waste exports to developing countries.
