A militant peasant group on Sunday called on the House of Representatives Committee on Agrarian Reform to probe Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa’s order exempting 435 hectares (ha) of land from the government’s agrarian reform program that is being targeted as the site of a solar energy project by the Department of Energy (DOE) and a private renewable energy firm in Rodriguez town in the province of Rizal.
The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) said that the 30-megawatt (MW) solar energy project entered into by the DOE and ATN Philippines Solar Energy Group Inc. (ATN Solar) would lead to the “land-grabbing” of more than 435-ha of agricultural land and eviction of more than 4,000 farmer-families in Barangay Macabud, Rodriguez, Rizal.
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