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Monday, July 14, 2008 |
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Environmental issue turns
into ‘war of children’ |
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Beneficiaries of Energy Development Corporation
willing to bring their sons and daughters into the fray
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BACOLOD CITY: What was merely an issue of energy
vs. environment has now exacerbated with opposing parties bent on
using their children to sway government and the courts to their
side.
The Save Mount Kanlaon Coalition filed a
class suit on Thursday with more than 80 children in the frontlines
against the Department of Natural Resources and Environment (DENR),
the Park Assets Management Board and the Energy Development
Corporation (EDC) for the latter’s plan to conduct geothermal
exploration development at the buffer zone of Mount Kanlaon Natural
Park in Negros Occidental.
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Baguio police form all-female Special Weapons
and Tactics team
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BAGUIO CITY: They are pretty and deadly. The Baguio City Police
Office (BCPO) has formed its all-female Special Weapons and Tactics
(SWAT) team that would respond to emergency calls needing urgent
police assistance in this mountain resort city.
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NPA rebels attack firm,
burn heavy equipment
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DAVAO CITY: An undetermined number of New People’s Army (NPA)
rebels attacked an establishment in Barangay Lasang, Bunawan
District, around 2 a.m. Sunday, reported the Philippine News Agency.
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Tribal leaders appeal for gov’s
assistance over mining issue
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LA TRINIDAD, Benguet: Concerned leaders of indigenous cultural
communities (ICCs) whose land is covered by a mining permit for
Philex Mines requested Gov. Nestor Fongwan of Benguet to look into
the propriety of the issuance of an exploration permit to the
company.
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FEATURE
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Boys and girls learn history of
Baguio City from walking tour
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BAGUIO CITY: Sixth-grader Jho Mark Salipio is a boy scout but he
didn’t know it was Lord Baden Powell who founded the international
youth movement. The kid also admitted he had no idea how Session
Road, Baguio’s inclined main street, got its name.
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