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Iloilo City, April 12, 2014 Resource persons: Attys. Zafiro Lauron, Ed Pestano, and Paul Margarico, all from Iloilo's 3rd congressional district. L to R: Margarico, Peter J, Lauron, Pestano and yours truly. Lawyers Boy Layton, Paul Margarico, and Edward Pestano : we are for irrigation but we are against the Jalaur Dam II, a super dam that puts the environment and our lives at risk.  Lauron: the dam plan was railroaded even sans free, prior and informed consent.  The National Irrigation Administration (NIA) touts that JRMPP II will irrigate additional 30,000 of rice lands but Lauron disputes that saying it will only serve 9,000 additional rice lands "which should have been completed in the '60 under the first phase of the project." "We are not against development, in fact, we are for it," adds lawyer Pestano. "However, the proponents of the JRMP II (Jalaur River Multi Purpose Project II violated all pertinent laws and pr...

ILOILO CITY  April 5, 2014 TIGBAUAN TOWN, 20 kilometers south of the provincial capital Iloilo City launches today its ambitious program that aims to protect its people from calamities, restore its marine life and push back the sea. Mayor Suzettee Tenefrancia Alquisada says the "beach reforestation program" aims to cover 10 hectares of buffer zone stretching through nine coastal barangays. Funding and technical guidance comes from the Iloilo provincial government. Gov. Arthur D. Defensor leads the launching this morning of the first beach reforestation project with the planting of 5,000 mangroves along the tidal flats and "mangrove cousins" in beaches unreached by tidal flow. The seedling include "bakhaw", talisay (Terminalia catappa), beach agoho (Casuarina equisetifolia), coconuts (cocos nucifera) and "kamunsil" (kamatsili or Pithecellobium dulce). Some 1,500 volunteers this morning trooped to the venue the mout...

ILOILO CITY  April 5, 2014 TIGBAUAN TOWN, 20 kilometers south of the provincial capital Iloilo City launches today its ambitious program that aims to protect its people from calamities, restore its marine life and push back the sea. Mayor Suzettee Tenefrancia Alquisada says the "beach reforestation program" aims to cover 10 hectares of buffer zone stretching through nine coastal barangays. Gov. Arthur D. Defensor leads the launching this morning of the first beach reforestation project with the planting of 5,000 mangroves along the tidal flats and "mangrove cousins" in beaches unreached by tidal flow. The seedling include "bakhaw", talisay (Terminalia catappa), beach agoho (Casuarina equisetifolia), coconuts (cocos nucifera) and "kamunsil" (kamatsili or Pithecellobium dulce). Some 1,500 volunteers this morning trooped to the venue the mouth of the Sibalom River. The gather turns out both into tree planting and some sort...