Remember Lady Cay-Cay
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Before we dance like monkeys jumping heads over heels to welcome the mega dam, the way Calinog, Iloilo mayor Alex Centena does, let's first go back to history before subsequent events become a farce.
Below are photos of the Immaculate Concepcion Church, Oton, Iloilo before and after Lady Cay-Cay, the only earthquake in the world that has a name, from the huge furrows appearing as if the land surface has been scratched by a giant chicken. "Cay-Cay" refers to a fowl rummaging for food on the ground using its feet.
The West Panay Fault moved in January 25, 1948 destroying concrete structures throughout Panay including old Churches with a 9-intensity. They survived the Japanese and American bombs in WWII but not the tremors of Lady Cay-Cay.
The government is erecting a P11.2-billion mega-dam in Calinog, Iloilo just 11-kilometers from the West Panay Fault in nearby Lambunao town.
Proponents of the dam peddle the yarn that it will bring progress with its irrigation system and power generation (at only 6.6 mw at that) without counting the huge cost in terms of debt repayment (it's a loan) and the risks it entails on the flood plains of Iloilo, which is practically, all the towns from Calinog down to Iloilo City.
Oton, Iloilo is 60 km south of Lambunao, incidentally.
Before we dance like monkeys jumping heads over heels to welcome the mega dam, the way Calinog, Iloilo mayor Alex Centena does, let's first go back to history before subsequent events become a farce.
Below are photos of the Immaculate Concepcion Church, Oton, Iloilo before and after Lady Cay-Cay, the only earthquake in the world that has a name, from the huge furrows appearing as if the land surface has been scratched by a giant chicken. "Cay-Cay" refers to a fowl rummaging for food on the ground using its feet.
The West Panay Fault moved in January 25, 1948 destroying concrete structures throughout Panay including old Churches with a 9-intensity. They survived the Japanese and American bombs in WWII but not the tremors of Lady Cay-Cay.
The government is erecting a P11.2-billion mega-dam in Calinog, Iloilo just 11-kilometers from the West Panay Fault in nearby Lambunao town.
Proponents of the dam peddle the yarn that it will bring progress with its irrigation system and power generation (at only 6.6 mw at that) without counting the huge cost in terms of debt repayment (it's a loan) and the risks it entails on the flood plains of Iloilo, which is practically, all the towns from Calinog down to Iloilo City.
Oton, Iloilo is 60 km south of Lambunao, incidentally.
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