Business sector urged to oppose Bulacan airport
CLARK FREEPORT – A partylist group has asked the business sector to oppose the Bulacan aerotropolis project.
The Anakpawis party list issued the statement after fisherfolks from Bulacan and Cavite staged a protest in Pasig City.
The organization urged the people and the business sector to snub the 2,500-hectare airport project in what they alleged as “socially irresponsible, detrimental to the environment and violative of the socio-economic rights of poor sectors.”
“We urge the people to boycott the aerotropolis project, by not supporting it, and for the business sector to avoid investing on it. It is anti-people and anti-environment,” former Anakpawis lawmaker Ariel “Ka Ayik”Casilao said in a press statement sent to Sun.Star Pampanga.
The former lawmaker claimed no environmental compliance and notice to proceed from the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) was issued yet for the project. Both requirements are crucial for a project to push through, he added.
“So if they are that confident, amid without a comprehensive study on its impact on the environment, of its geo-hazard assessment and socio-economic impact on directly and indirectly affected sectors, it simply means that they would move heaven and earth for the project to push through even it is objectively and scientifically found that the project is not suitable,” Casilao said.
The former solon said this issue is not only a concern for the fisher folk communities in Barangay Taliptip in Bulakan town but of the people living in various towns in the province, as it may worsen the impact of flooding in their communities.
In August 2018, due to tropical storms and “habagat” rains, eight towns of Bulacan were flooded that affected