Return Canada Trash Senate Bill to Jail Liberal Party who approve Canada investor of trash export; Canada violated Basel Convention Waste Control Act; Jail Custom and DENR government officials disposing trash to Capaz Tarlac and other Philippine landfill
Return Canada Trash Senate Bill to Jail Liberal Party who approve Canada investor of trash export; Canada violated Basel Convention Waste Control Act; Jail Custom and DENR government officials disposing trash to Capaz Tarlac and other Philippine landfill
The Issue
Philippine legislative solons must protect the Philippines from becoming a dumping site ot trash, garbage, municipal waste, toxic waste, mining waste chemical waste, radioactive waste, and other type of environmental hazardous waste. The Filipino people want to protect its human habitat from hazardous, odorous, and toxic waste that has harmful effect to human health, environmental ecology,plant and wildlife biodiversity.
Why the Canada government, and Canadian Embassy officials to the Philippines are considered lousy and irresponsible "BALASUBAS" compare to the Japan government and Japanese Embassy officials when it comes to abiding the rule of law of enforcing the agreement signed on 1989 March 22 Basel Switzerland Convention about the environmentally sound management and control of hazardous wastes trans-boundary movements and their disposal?
During the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention last 1999 November , Von Hernandez, Greenpeace toxics campaigner for Southeast Asia explained, '' The honorable response from the Japanese government is to take back the shipment of 124 container vans of hazardous waste (hospital, industrial and municipal garbage) and force the Japanese exporter Ygengaisha Nisso of Tochigi,to shoulder the liabilities associated with its return and disposal in Japan,''.
Japanese ambassador to the Philippines Yoshihisa Ara said Tokyo is committed to abiding by the Basel Convention. The Japanese embassy also wants to make a visual inspection of the vans and get more information.
''Japan does not want to be known as a hazardous waste-exporting country,'' Domingo Siazon (former D.F.A. secretary during the time of former President Joseph Estrada) said.
To many, the discovery of the hazardous-waste shipment shows how difficult it is to enforce a ban on toxic trade despite the international legal instruments that exist, given the economic impetus behind it. ''We came out in favour of globalization, but we never imagined that it would include the globalization of garbage and large-scale exportation of possibly infectious and toxic trash,'' argued the English-language daily Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Under the Basel Convention, Siazon said this waste should be shipped back to the country of origin within 30 days.
Among the waste found by the Philippines environment department were needles for intravenous injections, medical rubber hose and tubes, used adult and baby diapers, used sanitary napkins, discarded intravenous syringes used in blood letting and dextrose, garments, bandages.
There were also PVC plastic materials mixed with industrial and household wastes, styropor packaging materials, sacks, plastic sheets, PVC pipes, plastic packaging materials, paper, plastic food packaging materials, and other hospital waste.
The shipment was declared by the consignee, Sinsei Enterprises, as ''recyclable'' waste, until a visual inspection showed otherwise. It had also undergone pre-inspection by the Swiss firm Societe Generale de Surveillance, another focus of the Philippine probe.
Hernandez said this is not the first time that toxic waste from Japan has been brought to the Philippines in the guise of ''recycling''.
In 1994, lead acid batteries from industrialized countries, including Japan, were reported to have been legally imported for recycling by battery firms. This was the despite the threat poised to the environment and human health by such recycling, which is no longer done in industrialized countries.
Likewise, old Japanese ships containing have hazardous materials have also been imported and recycled in the central province of Cebu, he said. Shipbreaking has been identified as another form of working with hazardous waste.
''It looks like there's a syndicate behind this operation,'' Hernandez said of the November 24 shipment. Japanese authorities are looking into how the exporting firm, Ygengaisha Nisso of Tochigi, was able to send the waste shipment out. The company has cases of illegal dumping of waste pending.
''The shady and criminal background of the company officials which sent us this hazardous trash makes it all the more imperative for the Philippine government to take action now and use all bilateral and international avenues available to force the return of the wastes to Japan,'' Hernandez said.
The Fifth Conference of the parties of the Basel Convention is now taking place in Basel, Switzerland.
In 1995, under strong pressure from the green lobby, the convention adopted a ratified a major amendment in 1995 called the Basel Ban to prohibit the wealthy member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from exporting hazardous waste to non-OECD states.
Hernandez also called on the Philippine legislature to ratify the Basel Ban and ''send a strong signal to foreign waste traders that the Philippines will no longer tolerate being used as dumping ground for hazardous wastes even under the guise of recycling''.
Siazon also recommended to the environment department that a chemical investigation be conducted by the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute to determine if some of the waste is radioactive.
http://www.atimes.com/se-asia/AL16Ae01.html
As compare to Erap Admin who successfully return the illegal import of Japan's garbage and the Japanese corporation was penalized, Aquino admin (Liberal Party) probably accept a secret deal with Canadian embassy about dumping Canada's trash into local landfill in exchange for money deal..
Why Aquino admin acted differently in the case of Canada trash and did not follow what Erap Admin had done before in returning Japan garbage back to the Japanese exporter using basel convention? How much this will cost us the taxpayer to pay for handling, mobilization and demobilization and treatment of garbage in landfill?
Philippine Daily Inquirer
By: Dona Z. Pazzibugan, March 30th, 2015 09:03 PM
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government has decided to locally dispose of the tons of trash that were illegally shipped to the port in Manila from Canada two years ago.
An official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said an interagency body decided to dispose of the garbage in local landfills because of the prolonged negotiations to have the trash shipped back to Canada.
DENR Environment Management Bureau director Jonas Leones said the cost of the “treatment” would be charged to the importer, Valenzuela City-based Chronic Plastics, which was named as consignee of the exporter, Chronic Inc. based in Ontario, Canada.
The Bureau of Customs, through the Department of Justice, has charged Chronic Plastics owner Adelfa Eduardo and customs brokers Leonora Flores and Sherjun Saldon with violation of Republic Act 6969 or the Act to Control Toxic Substances and Hazardous Nuclear Wastes.
They were also charged with violation of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines (TCCP) for the unlawful importation of waste materials from Canada.
Leones said last February 17, state prosecutors asked the Manila Regional Trial Court to hold an inspection and to order the trash disposed of afterwards.
“It can be locally treated. That’s the best option we can take,” the EMB director said.
The decision came after the DENR concluded that the trash from Canada inside 50 container vans that began arriving in June 2013 consisted of “mixed scrap plastic and household waste.”
“Based on the waste analysis and characterization study (WACS), it’s not toxic and hazardous but mixed scrap plastic and household waste. Then the Philippines has the capability to undertake local treatment,” Leones said.
Contradicting earlier reports that some of the opened vans contained used adult diapers, Leones said their personnel did not find any in the 10 vans they checked.
“According to the WACS, no diaper was found. Based on the findings of the team, it consists of mixed scrap plastic and household waste,” he said.
He said they have identified five landfills where the trash would be dumped after segregating any reusable plastic scrap.
“Canada is cooperating with the government in addressing the problem,” Leones said.
The government, backed by public health and environmental advocates, had been asking the Canadian government to take back the 50 container vans that were found to be filled with household wastes in a customs inspection.
Developed nations are prohibited from dumping garbage in developing countries under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes, which the Philippines and Canada have ratified.
According to the international treaty, the country where the waste originated should be responsible for returning the waste to its port of origin “within 30 days” from the time it was notified about the illegal shipment.
The Canadian Embassy, however, has refused to take back the garbage, saying the issue was a “private commercial matter” between a Canadian exporter and its Philippine importer-partner.
Leones said the negotiations with Canada involved not only the DENR but other government agencies.
“They’re (Canadian embassy) willing to help us and assist the government in resolving the problem,” he said.
Meanwhile, for the last two years, the trash rotted in the port of Manila while some of the vans have been brought to the Subic port to ease the congestion of vans. SFM/AC
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/120215/ph-decides-to-dispose-of-canada-garbage-in-local-landfill
Designated Competent Authorities and/or Focal Points
Canada Representatives to Basel Convention
Role: BC CA, BC FP
Job title: Director
Department: Waste Reduction and Management Division
Institution: Environment Canada
Postal address: 351 St. Joseph Boulevard, 14th Floor
K1A OH3 Gatineau
Quebec
Canada
Phone: +1 819 997 33 77
Fax: +1 819 997 30 68
Email: WRMD-DRGD@ec.gc.ca
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Role: BC CA, BC FP
Job title: Director
Department: Environment and Management Bureau
Institution: Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
Postal address: DENR Compound Visayas Avenue
Diliman, Quezon City
Manila
Philippines
Phone: +63 2 928 37 82
Fax: +63 2 920 22 63
Email: emb@emb.gov.ph
Japan Representatives to Basel Convention
Role: BC FP
Job title: Director
Department: Global Environment Division / International Cooperation Bureau
Institution: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Postal address: 2-2-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
100-8919 Tokyo
Japan
Phone: +81 3 5501 8245
Fax: +81 3 5501 8244
Email: noriko.kobayashi@mofa.go.jp
Role: BC CA
Job title: Director
Department: Office of Waste Disposal Management
Institution: Ministry of the Environment
Postal address: 1-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
100-8975 Tokyo
Japan
Phone: +81 3 5501 3157
Fax: +81 3 3593 8264
Email: env-basel@env.go.jp
As compare to Erap Admin who successfully return the illegal import of Japan's garbage and the Japanese corporation was penalized, Aquino admin (Liberal Party) probably accept a secret deal with Canadian embassy about dumping Canada's trash into local landfill in exchange for money deal..
Why Aquino admin acted differently in the case of Canada trash and did not follow what Erap Admin had done before in returning Japan garbage back to the Japanese exporter using basel convention? How much this will cost us the taxpayer to pay for handling, mobilization and demobilization and treatment of garbage in landfill?
Why the Department of Foreign Affair secretary under Aquino administration can not invoke the 1989-1992 Basel convention agreement wherein Canada government is one of the signatories as compared to what Domingo Siazon (former D.F.A. secretary during the time of former President Joseph Estrada administration) had done to the 1999 Nov24 shipments of 124 container vans containing Japan garbage and waste?/
Why ? How stupid DENR, and CUSTOM to accept Canada garbage and hazardous waste?
The DENR should order return of Canada trash irregardless whether it is toxic or not as long as it is considered garbage (BASURA) whether municipal, hospital, industrial, mining, or factory waste.
Shame on these irresponsible, lousy, and stupid DENR, Bureau of Custom officials, D.F.A., and Canada Embassy officials to the Philippines.
Re-export and Ship back Canada trash,, garbage (basura) and municipal, hospital. industrial, and factory waste.
#CanadaGarbage
#CanadaTrash
#CanadaWaste
#ReturnCanadaGarbage
#ReturnCanadaTrash
#ReturnCanadaWaste
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As compare to Erap Admin who successfully return the illegal import of Japan's garbage and the Japanese corporation was penalized, Aquino admin (Liberal Party) probably accept a secret deal with Canadian embassy about dumping Canada's trash into local landfill in exchange for money deal..
Why Aquino admin acted differently in the case of Canada trash and did not follow what Erap Admin had done before in returning Japan garbage back to the Japanese exporter using basel convention? How much this will cost us the taxpayer to pay for handling, mobilization and demobilization and treatment of garbage in landfill?
Why the Department of Foreign Affair secretary under Aquino administration can not invoke the 1989-1992 Basel convention agreement wherein Canada government is one of the signatories as compared to what Domingo Siazon (former D.F.A. secretary during the time of former President Joseph Estrada administration) had done to the 1999 Nov24 shipments of 124 container vans containing Japan garbage and waste?/
Why ? How stupid DENR, and CUSTOM to accept Canada garbage and hazardous waste?
The DENR should order return of Canada trash irregardless whether it is toxic or not as long as it is considered garbage (BASURA) whether municipal, hospital, industrial, mining, or factory waste.
Shame on these irresponsible, lousy, and stupid DENR, Bureau of Custom officials, D.F.A., and Canada Embassy officials to the Philippines.
Re-export and Ship back Canada trash,, garbage (basura) and municipal, hospital. industrial, and factory waste.
#CanadaGarbage
#CanadaTrash
#CanadaWaste
#ReturnCanadaGarbage
#ReturnCanadaTrash
#ReturnCanadaWaste
The Issue
Philippine legislative solons must protect the Philippines from becoming a dumping site ot trash, garbage, municipal waste, toxic waste, mining waste chemical waste, radioactive waste, and other type of environmental hazardous waste. The Filipino people want to protect its human habitat from hazardous, odorous, and toxic waste that has harmful effect to human health, environmental ecology,plant and wildlife biodiversity.
Why the Canada government, and Canadian Embassy officials to the Philippines are considered lousy and irresponsible "BALASUBAS" compare to the Japan government and Japanese Embassy officials when it comes to abiding the rule of law of enforcing the agreement signed on 1989 March 22 Basel Switzerland Convention about the environmentally sound management and control of hazardous wastes trans-boundary movements and their disposal?
During the 10th anniversary of the Basel Convention last 1999 November , Von Hernandez, Greenpeace toxics campaigner for Southeast Asia explained, '' The honorable response from the Japanese government is to take back the shipment of 124 container vans of hazardous waste (hospital, industrial and municipal garbage) and force the Japanese exporter Ygengaisha Nisso of Tochigi,to shoulder the liabilities associated with its return and disposal in Japan,''.
Japanese ambassador to the Philippines Yoshihisa Ara said Tokyo is committed to abiding by the Basel Convention. The Japanese embassy also wants to make a visual inspection of the vans and get more information.
''Japan does not want to be known as a hazardous waste-exporting country,'' Domingo Siazon (former D.F.A. secretary during the time of former President Joseph Estrada) said.
To many, the discovery of the hazardous-waste shipment shows how difficult it is to enforce a ban on toxic trade despite the international legal instruments that exist, given the economic impetus behind it. ''We came out in favour of globalization, but we never imagined that it would include the globalization of garbage and large-scale exportation of possibly infectious and toxic trash,'' argued the English-language daily Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Under the Basel Convention, Siazon said this waste should be shipped back to the country of origin within 30 days.
Among the waste found by the Philippines environment department were needles for intravenous injections, medical rubber hose and tubes, used adult and baby diapers, used sanitary napkins, discarded intravenous syringes used in blood letting and dextrose, garments, bandages.
There were also PVC plastic materials mixed with industrial and household wastes, styropor packaging materials, sacks, plastic sheets, PVC pipes, plastic packaging materials, paper, plastic food packaging materials, and other hospital waste.
The shipment was declared by the consignee, Sinsei Enterprises, as ''recyclable'' waste, until a visual inspection showed otherwise. It had also undergone pre-inspection by the Swiss firm Societe Generale de Surveillance, another focus of the Philippine probe.
Hernandez said this is not the first time that toxic waste from Japan has been brought to the Philippines in the guise of ''recycling''.
In 1994, lead acid batteries from industrialized countries, including Japan, were reported to have been legally imported for recycling by battery firms. This was the despite the threat poised to the environment and human health by such recycling, which is no longer done in industrialized countries.
Likewise, old Japanese ships containing have hazardous materials have also been imported and recycled in the central province of Cebu, he said. Shipbreaking has been identified as another form of working with hazardous waste.
''It looks like there's a syndicate behind this operation,'' Hernandez said of the November 24 shipment. Japanese authorities are looking into how the exporting firm, Ygengaisha Nisso of Tochigi, was able to send the waste shipment out. The company has cases of illegal dumping of waste pending.
''The shady and criminal background of the company officials which sent us this hazardous trash makes it all the more imperative for the Philippine government to take action now and use all bilateral and international avenues available to force the return of the wastes to Japan,'' Hernandez said.
The Fifth Conference of the parties of the Basel Convention is now taking place in Basel, Switzerland.
In 1995, under strong pressure from the green lobby, the convention adopted a ratified a major amendment in 1995 called the Basel Ban to prohibit the wealthy member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) from exporting hazardous waste to non-OECD states.
Hernandez also called on the Philippine legislature to ratify the Basel Ban and ''send a strong signal to foreign waste traders that the Philippines will no longer tolerate being used as dumping ground for hazardous wastes even under the guise of recycling''.
Siazon also recommended to the environment department that a chemical investigation be conducted by the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute to determine if some of the waste is radioactive.
http://www.atimes.com/se-asia/AL16Ae01.html
As compare to Erap Admin who successfully return the illegal import of Japan's garbage and the Japanese corporation was penalized, Aquino admin (Liberal Party) probably accept a secret deal with Canadian embassy about dumping Canada's trash into local landfill in exchange for money deal..
Why Aquino admin acted differently in the case of Canada trash and did not follow what Erap Admin had done before in returning Japan garbage back to the Japanese exporter using basel convention? How much this will cost us the taxpayer to pay for handling, mobilization and demobilization and treatment of garbage in landfill?
Philippine Daily Inquirer
By: Dona Z. Pazzibugan, March 30th, 2015 09:03 PM
MANILA, Philippines – The Philippine government has decided to locally dispose of the tons of trash that were illegally shipped to the port in Manila from Canada two years ago.
An official of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) said an interagency body decided to dispose of the garbage in local landfills because of the prolonged negotiations to have the trash shipped back to Canada.
DENR Environment Management Bureau director Jonas Leones said the cost of the “treatment” would be charged to the importer, Valenzuela City-based Chronic Plastics, which was named as consignee of the exporter, Chronic Inc. based in Ontario, Canada.
The Bureau of Customs, through the Department of Justice, has charged Chronic Plastics owner Adelfa Eduardo and customs brokers Leonora Flores and Sherjun Saldon with violation of Republic Act 6969 or the Act to Control Toxic Substances and Hazardous Nuclear Wastes.
They were also charged with violation of the Tariff and Customs Code of the Philippines (TCCP) for the unlawful importation of waste materials from Canada.
Leones said last February 17, state prosecutors asked the Manila Regional Trial Court to hold an inspection and to order the trash disposed of afterwards.
“It can be locally treated. That’s the best option we can take,” the EMB director said.
The decision came after the DENR concluded that the trash from Canada inside 50 container vans that began arriving in June 2013 consisted of “mixed scrap plastic and household waste.”
“Based on the waste analysis and characterization study (WACS), it’s not toxic and hazardous but mixed scrap plastic and household waste. Then the Philippines has the capability to undertake local treatment,” Leones said.
Contradicting earlier reports that some of the opened vans contained used adult diapers, Leones said their personnel did not find any in the 10 vans they checked.
“According to the WACS, no diaper was found. Based on the findings of the team, it consists of mixed scrap plastic and household waste,” he said.
He said they have identified five landfills where the trash would be dumped after segregating any reusable plastic scrap.
“Canada is cooperating with the government in addressing the problem,” Leones said.
The government, backed by public health and environmental advocates, had been asking the Canadian government to take back the 50 container vans that were found to be filled with household wastes in a customs inspection.
Developed nations are prohibited from dumping garbage in developing countries under the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes, which the Philippines and Canada have ratified.
According to the international treaty, the country where the waste originated should be responsible for returning the waste to its port of origin “within 30 days” from the time it was notified about the illegal shipment.
The Canadian Embassy, however, has refused to take back the garbage, saying the issue was a “private commercial matter” between a Canadian exporter and its Philippine importer-partner.
Leones said the negotiations with Canada involved not only the DENR but other government agencies.
“They’re (Canadian embassy) willing to help us and assist the government in resolving the problem,” he said.
Meanwhile, for the last two years, the trash rotted in the port of Manila while some of the vans have been brought to the Subic port to ease the congestion of vans. SFM/AC
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/120215/ph-decides-to-dispose-of-canada-garbage-in-local-landfill
Designated Competent Authorities and/or Focal Points
Canada Representatives to Basel Convention
Role: BC CA, BC FP
Job title: Director
Department: Waste Reduction and Management Division
Institution: Environment Canada
Postal address: 351 St. Joseph Boulevard, 14th Floor
K1A OH3 Gatineau
Quebec
Canada
Phone: +1 819 997 33 77
Fax: +1 819 997 30 68
Email: WRMD-DRGD@ec.gc.ca
Philippines Representatives to Basel Convention
Role: BC CA, BC FP
Job title: Director
Department: Environment and Management Bureau
Institution: Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)
Postal address: DENR Compound Visayas Avenue
Diliman, Quezon City
Manila
Philippines
Phone: +63 2 928 37 82
Fax: +63 2 920 22 63
Email: emb@emb.gov.ph
Japan Representatives to Basel Convention
Role: BC FP
Job title: Director
Department: Global Environment Division / International Cooperation Bureau
Institution: Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Postal address: 2-2-1 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
100-8919 Tokyo
Japan
Phone: +81 3 5501 8245
Fax: +81 3 5501 8244
Email: noriko.kobayashi@mofa.go.jp
Role: BC CA
Job title: Director
Department: Office of Waste Disposal Management
Institution: Ministry of the Environment
Postal address: 1-2-2 Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda-ku
100-8975 Tokyo
Japan
Phone: +81 3 5501 3157
Fax: +81 3 3593 8264
Email: env-basel@env.go.jp
As compare to Erap Admin who successfully return the illegal import of Japan's garbage and the Japanese corporation was penalized, Aquino admin (Liberal Party) probably accept a secret deal with Canadian embassy about dumping Canada's trash into local landfill in exchange for money deal..
Why Aquino admin acted differently in the case of Canada trash and did not follow what Erap Admin had done before in returning Japan garbage back to the Japanese exporter using basel convention? How much this will cost us the taxpayer to pay for handling, mobilization and demobilization and treatment of garbage in landfill?
Why the Department of Foreign Affair secretary under Aquino administration can not invoke the 1989-1992 Basel convention agreement wherein Canada government is one of the signatories as compared to what Domingo Siazon (former D.F.A. secretary during the time of former President Joseph Estrada administration) had done to the 1999 Nov24 shipments of 124 container vans containing Japan garbage and waste?/
Why ? How stupid DENR, and CUSTOM to accept Canada garbage and hazardous waste?
The DENR should order return of Canada trash irregardless whether it is toxic or not as long as it is considered garbage (BASURA) whether municipal, hospital, industrial, mining, or factory waste.
Shame on these irresponsible, lousy, and stupid DENR, Bureau of Custom officials, D.F.A., and Canada Embassy officials to the Philippines.
Re-export and Ship back Canada trash,, garbage (basura) and municipal, hospital. industrial, and factory waste.
#CanadaGarbage
#CanadaTrash
#CanadaWaste
#ReturnCanadaGarbage
#ReturnCanadaTrash
#ReturnCanadaWaste
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Telephone: (63-2) 857-9000
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Philippine Senate COMMITTEE
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Sen. Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr.
Bongbong Marcos
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Senator Ferdinand "Bongbong" R. Marcos, Jr.
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Email: inquiry.bbmoffice@gmail.com, info@bongbongmarcos.com
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Senate Committee on Environment and Natural Resources
Senator Francis Joseph “Chiz” Escudero
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Direct Lines: (632) 833-5034
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Foreign Relations Senate Committee
Legislative Oversight Committee on the Visiting Forces Agreement
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Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago
Senate Office: Rm. 521-A GSIS Bldg., Financial Center, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
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Direct Lines: (632) 552-6693
Telefax No.: (632) 552-6692
Email: miriam@miriam.com.ph, mdslegal@yahoo.com
Website:www.miriam.com.ph
Joint Congressional Oversight Committee
on the Ecological Solid Waste Management Act
and on the Clean Water Act
and on the Clean Air Act
and on the Chain Saw Act
Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on Public Expenditures
Senator Loren B. Legarda
Senate Office: Rm. 209 GSIS Bldg., Financial Center, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
Trunk Lines: (632) 552-6601 to 70 loc. 5537 to 5539
Direct Line: (632) 833-1606 / (632) 832-7627 / (632) 833-1434
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COMMITEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
JURISDICTION : All matters directly and principally relating to the relations of the Philippines with other countries, diplomatic and consular services, the United Nations and its agencies, and other international organizations and agencies.
CHAIRPERSON :
Hon. Bichara, Al Francis C.Bichara, Al Francis C.
District Representative
Albay, 2nd District
Term: 3
MEMBERSHIP : 55 Members
COMMITTEE OFFICE :
3/F Annex Building, House of Representatives, Quezon City
Telephone no. 9315001 local 7127, Telefax no. 9317969
Committee Secretary - Ms. Imelda F. Apostol
NATURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE
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CHAIRPERSON :
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District Representative
Surigao Del Norte, 1st District
Term: 3
MEMBERSHIP : 65 Members
COMMITTEE OFFICE :
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Telephone no. 9315001 local 7161, Telefax no. 9513003
Committee Secretary - Mr. Raul G. Terso
ECOLOGY
JURISDICTION : All matters directly and principally relating to ecosystem management including pollution control.
CHAIRPERSON :
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Telephone:
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Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III
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President of the Republic of the Philippines
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As compare to Erap Admin who successfully return the illegal import of Japan's garbage and the Japanese corporation was penalized, Aquino admin (Liberal Party) probably accept a secret deal with Canadian embassy about dumping Canada's trash into local landfill in exchange for money deal..
Why Aquino admin acted differently in the case of Canada trash and did not follow what Erap Admin had done before in returning Japan garbage back to the Japanese exporter using basel convention? How much this will cost us the taxpayer to pay for handling, mobilization and demobilization and treatment of garbage in landfill?
Why the Department of Foreign Affair secretary under Aquino administration can not invoke the 1989-1992 Basel convention agreement wherein Canada government is one of the signatories as compared to what Domingo Siazon (former D.F.A. secretary during the time of former President Joseph Estrada administration) had done to the 1999 Nov24 shipments of 124 container vans containing Japan garbage and waste?/
Why ? How stupid DENR, and CUSTOM to accept Canada garbage and hazardous waste?
The DENR should order return of Canada trash irregardless whether it is toxic or not as long as it is considered garbage (BASURA) whether municipal, hospital, industrial, mining, or factory waste.
Shame on these irresponsible, lousy, and stupid DENR, Bureau of Custom officials, D.F.A., and Canada Embassy officials to the Philippines.
Re-export and Ship back Canada trash,, garbage (basura) and municipal, hospital. industrial, and factory waste.
#CanadaGarbage
#CanadaTrash
#CanadaWaste
#ReturnCanadaGarbage
#ReturnCanadaTrash
#ReturnCanadaWaste
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Petition created on July 16, 2015