Early last month, I took occasion to touch on a land reclamation project being undertaken in Consolacion, Cebu for the establishment of a so-called Seafront City in Barangay Tayud by the La Consolacion Seafront Development Corp. (LCSDC). I just found myself empathizing with various stakeholders in their concern that the reclamation project would do the locality more harm than good. The project involves the reclamation of more than 235.80 hectares of a coastal area that has been home to a thriving shipyard industry, servicing the anchoring, maintenance and repair needs of ships in the Visayan region and Northern Mindanao. The industry has been the lifeblood of the village's some 25,000 residents. The latest information I got about the controversy at the time was that Judge Allan Francisco Garciano of the Mandaue City Regional Trial Court Branch 83 has issued a status quo ante order, requiring Mayor Joannes Pepito Alegado not to close the shipyards in La Consolacion, Cebu before December 31.

I wrote then, "With that order, the judge had put to rest, albeit in a temporary manner, a number of controversial issues that have attended the approval of the project. Foremost among such issues are the facts that the project proponent, La Consolacion Seafront Development Corp. (LCSDC), is Luzon-based and its starting capital is a measly P10 million.

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