Tarlac board wants contract on Canadian Waste rescinded

TARLAC CITY— The Provincial Board (PB) of Tarlac on Friday passed a resolution demanding that the contract entered between the Bureau of Customs (BoC) and the Metro Clark Waste Management Corporation (MCWMC) be cancelled.

No less than Rufo Colayco, president of the MCWMC admitted to board members that they have entered a contract with the BoC to use the Kalangitan Sanitary Landfill in Capas, Tarlac as a disposal area for the Canadian waste that have been sitting at the Manila Port Area since 2013.

Resolution No. 056-2015 states that the PB is “demanding for the immediate rescission/cancellation of the contract between the Bureau of Customs (BOC) and the Metro Clark Waste Management Corporation (MCWMC) relative to the dumping of the garbage from Canada in the Kalangitan Sanitary Landfill in Capas, Tarlac. The PB also mentioned in the resolution that “The dumping of the garbage from Canada in Kalangitan Sanitary Landfill is in violation of the authority granted by the Sanggunian Panlalawigan in its Resolution No. 023-2002 and Resolution No. 108-2003, to which the Clark Development Corporation, as owner of the sanitary landfill agreed and confirmed. It also said that there is an urgent need to formally demand from the parties concerned the stoppage of the dumping of the Canadian garbage in the Kalangitan Sanitary Landfill. According to Vice-Governor Enrique “Kit” Cojuangco, Jr. copies of the resolution were already sent to the BOC, MCWMC, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Interior and Local Government and the Senate Committee on Local Government.