Garbage at SRP?
WHEN Cebu City Hall has no other choice but to dump garbage at tbe SRP, I am ashamed there are people who cheer the situation as victory.
The environment has not won. Closing down the Inayawan dumpsite without an alternative in place is plain stupid.
Leaving garbage uncollected at the downtown areas and the suburbs plainly leads to an environment disaster and health crisis.
The way I see it, not collecting garbage daily like what the previous administration did in a futile attempt to pressure the council to approve an anomalous tipping fee transaction is not an option.
Should we opt to continue an anomalous arrangement with the Consolacion dumpsite people? Never mind the corruption. Think about the leachate seeping to Consolacion’s groundwater. Are we not concerned that Consolacion is a major water source of MCWD?
Was concern for the environment the motivation for going to court to close the Inayawan dumpsite? Considering the absence of an alternative, we can cancel out environmentalism. And that leaves us politics. Plain, stinking politics.
With that said, am I in favor of dumping the city’s thrash at the SRP? Hell no. I pass by the south coastal road daily. With the traffic at the downtown area, I plan to move around the establishments at the SRP this holiday season.
But what alternative is there for dumping the city’s garbage until our officials can put in place something better than the transfer station in SRP?
Instead of helping shape viable alternatives, the city’s political opposition callously cheers what it deems political victory and smugly blocks solutions at the City Council.
If the political opposition can’t be part of the solution, perhaps other stakeholders at the SRP can step forward and help with solutions, minus the politics.
*** It seems extreme Right elements are alarmed by the rise of Kilusang Pagbabago. A post in a Yellow blogsite smeared KP national leaders as communist party members.
Curiously, the analysis seems to have been lifted from an online piece by Marcos loyalist propagandist Kit Tatad.
Is there a Yellow-Marcos loyalist alliance against KP? Oh well, this is a giveaway of a sloppy attempt at Red scare by amateurs.
Was I so amused? The post mentioned yours truly as among the basis for labelling Doris a communist. The post claimed that I am a member of the Visayas Party Committee. What? I would have been honored. But I did not even become one during my fulltime activist days deep into the Marcos dictatorship. Karon na nuon.
Basically, there are ongoing moves to falsely brand CabSec Leoncio Evasco and the participatory governance project as communist. They want to scuttle implementation of President Rody Duterte’s Social Development Agenda.
But even President Duterte said he is Left, a socialist though not a communist. Why the Red smear campaign? It could be a game of crabs and snakes. Or a part of ongoing destablization moves.