SOME Friends of ours has been discussing the recent disasters and calamities -- and we have noticed some pattern. Everytime some Congressman, or High Official get embroiled in a scandal, profited from some blown-up deals, his kababayans - locality is visited by a great calamity. Look back at the news reports and records for at least 8 years. If it's Karma... it's not the official who is affected !!! It is his constituents that suffer. Maybe it's our wake up call. Don't let our Officials do this to us.
These days... it's always the North being affected. I found some relevant items.
"While we are trying to help our country and kababayan, the hardened corrupt politicians in our country are selling what little natural resources we have to
foreigners, making it harder for our countrymen to live. Please read what is happening in many parts of the Philippines and in our beloved province, Cagayan Valley.
South Koreans illegally mining beaches
By Neal Cruz
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 23:27:00 05/31/2009
You have already heard what the South Koreans have done in our country, in particular at the Subic Bay Free trade Zone and on Volcano Island in Taal, Batangas. They built a high-rise residential condominium in the middle of a forest reserved and tried to raze a mini-forest long the pier area to build a hotel-casino in Subic. They succeeded in the forest but were blocked in the second by a Filipino architect trying to save our environment.
In Taal, they almost succeeded in putting up a hot springs spa at the foot of Taal volcano itself, with the approval of the mayor but without an Environment Compliance Certificate (ECC) from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). They had almost finished construction when the people woke up to what they were doing and protested. So the national government stepped in and construction was stopped.
Now listen to what the South Koreans are doing in the
northernmost tip of Cagayan, home province of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile.
Six coastal municipalities of Cagayan have miles and miles of beaches that attract tourists. Foreign and domestic tourists like the beaches because of their color. No, they are not white like that of Boracay but the opposite color: black.
Although the sands are not white, they are more valuable than the snow-white sands of Boracay. It is because the black sand is 70 percent composed of magnetite, a mineral used in the smelting of iron ore into steel. It is what the South Koreans are lusting after, the newly industrialized country being hungry for steel. They have been digging up the beaches and shipping away the black sand. They have already made a wasteland of the beaches of five municipalities. Without a beachfront to hold back the sea, salt water has invaded the farms and made them unproductive.
They have started mining the beach of a sixth municipality, Buguey, at Barangay Minanga Este, but the mayor, Ignacio M. Taruc, and the municipal council stopped them.
Koreans and their agents made many visits to Mayor Taruc to ask for a mining permit but the latter refused. The municipal government vigorously opposed any form of mining on its beaches as it would mar its pristine beauty and pose a danger to its farmlands. The council passed a resolution objecting to the mining of black sand and other minerals along the coastal areas of Buguey as we believe that this is destructive not only to the environment but also poses a danger to the safety and security of the people and the loss of their livelihood due to the entry of seawater into their farms.
Apparently, the governor, Alvaro T. Antonio, was not able to resist the persuasive powers of the Koreans In spite of the opposition of the people of Buguey, he issued a permit to mine its beaches of black sand, but it was in the name of a political ally, one Renato Alariao, a former member of the municipal council, although it was being used by the Korean company, Jisan
Mining Corp.
Governor Antonio did not reply even as Mayor Taruc refused to issue a mayor's permit. Instead, the governor directed the mining operation to proceed with the assistance of armed men. ........ More ........
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