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CORY SMELLED IT ONCE
Porac pigs’ stench now reaches P-Noy
Porac pigs’ stench now reaches P-Noy
Aug 31, 2010
ANGELES CITY – His beloved mother, the late President Cory Aquino, had personally smelled and was repelled by it.
Now, President Benigno Aquino III has direct knowledge of it, having been sent a letter that detailed the stench and “the toxicity” rising out of the piggery and poultry farms in Barangays Sta. Cruz and Manibaug-Paralaya in Porac town and in Barangay Cutcut in Angeles City.
The letter of the Pinoy Gumising Ka Movement to Aquino was personally hand-carried by Cory confidante Deedee Sytangco, who with the late President personally experienced the stink of the piggery farms.
“Our beloved President Cory herself personally experience the stench and the flies coming out of the piggeries of Porac during her visit to our home and our furniture show sometime in 1996,” said PGKM Chairman Ruperto Cruz in his letter dated August 28, 2010..
The letter reported to the President that for the past seven years, the PGKM and its allies like Krusada Kontra Amoy have been engaged in a campaign against the pollution caused by the piggery/poultry farms.
“For 20 long years, the people of the aforementioned barangays as well as those in the adjacent barangays of Angeles City have suffered from the stench rising out of these farms, afflicted with all the toxicity and the diseases that it carries,” the letter said.
It furthered: “For so long now, we have articulated in different fora as well as in the media these harmful effects of pollution on the community, presenting the actual cases of the special children at the Holy Trinity School in Barangay Sinura suffering from asthma, scabies and other skin diseases, periodic nausea, difficulty in breathing, gastro-intestinal ailments, and other maladies. Afflictions that have also become prevalent in Sta. Cruz and Manibaug-Paralaya.”
It also claimed that “Catholic nuns running the said school have also noted the increase in miscarriages and cases of “blue babies” in the area.”
The PGKM complained that in face of its campaigns, including mass actions, on the pollution problem, “the agencies concerned maintained quiet indifference.” It identified the agencies as the Environment Management Bureau, the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources, the Department of Health and the local government units of Porac and Angeles City.
“With your ascendancy to the presidency, and your clarion call for PAGBABAGO, our hopes for a lasting solution to the pollution problem here are rekindled,” said the PGKM letter to Aquino.
Earlier, the PGKM “renewed its calls to end the pollution problem” through letters to the members of the Aquino Cabinet, notably the secretaries of environment and natural resources, agriculture, health, tourism and local governments.
As this developed, the PGKM and other local environmental groups are planning to stage a massive protest march and indignation rally in Porac this coming September “if only to force the issue on the LGUs.” – Punto I-Team
Now, President Benigno Aquino III has direct knowledge of it, having been sent a letter that detailed the stench and “the toxicity” rising out of the piggery and poultry farms in Barangays Sta. Cruz and Manibaug-Paralaya in Porac town and in Barangay Cutcut in Angeles City.
The letter of the Pinoy Gumising Ka Movement to Aquino was personally hand-carried by Cory confidante Deedee Sytangco, who with the late President personally experienced the stink of the piggery farms.
“Our beloved President Cory herself personally experience the stench and the flies coming out of the piggeries of Porac during her visit to our home and our furniture show sometime in 1996,” said PGKM Chairman Ruperto Cruz in his letter dated August 28, 2010..
The letter reported to the President that for the past seven years, the PGKM and its allies like Krusada Kontra Amoy have been engaged in a campaign against the pollution caused by the piggery/poultry farms.
“For 20 long years, the people of the aforementioned barangays as well as those in the adjacent barangays of Angeles City have suffered from the stench rising out of these farms, afflicted with all the toxicity and the diseases that it carries,” the letter said.
It furthered: “For so long now, we have articulated in different fora as well as in the media these harmful effects of pollution on the community, presenting the actual cases of the special children at the Holy Trinity School in Barangay Sinura suffering from asthma, scabies and other skin diseases, periodic nausea, difficulty in breathing, gastro-intestinal ailments, and other maladies. Afflictions that have also become prevalent in Sta. Cruz and Manibaug-Paralaya.”
It also claimed that “Catholic nuns running the said school have also noted the increase in miscarriages and cases of “blue babies” in the area.”
The PGKM complained that in face of its campaigns, including mass actions, on the pollution problem, “the agencies concerned maintained quiet indifference.” It identified the agencies as the Environment Management Bureau, the Department of the Environment and Natural Resources, the Department of Health and the local government units of Porac and Angeles City.
“With your ascendancy to the presidency, and your clarion call for PAGBABAGO, our hopes for a lasting solution to the pollution problem here are rekindled,” said the PGKM letter to Aquino.
Earlier, the PGKM “renewed its calls to end the pollution problem” through letters to the members of the Aquino Cabinet, notably the secretaries of environment and natural resources, agriculture, health, tourism and local governments.
As this developed, the PGKM and other local environmental groups are planning to stage a massive protest march and indignation rally in Porac this coming September “if only to force the issue on the LGUs.” – Punto I-Team
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