THE Court of Appeals (CA) has made permanent the Temporary Environment Protection Order (TEPO) issued earlier by the Supreme Court (SC) against developments being undertaken at Mount Santo Tomas Forest Reserve in Tuba, Benguet.
In a 54-page resolution promulgated on May 6, 2015 but was released to the media only recently, the CA’s former Fifth Division granted a petition filed by church leaders and residents—led by Bishop Carlito Cenzon of the Baguio-Benguet Diocese and Archbishop Socrates Villegas of the Lingayen-Dagupan Diocese—who feared degradation of the watershed, the primary source of water for Tuba and Baguio City.
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