ROAD CLEANING-- Tabuk City college students belonging to the Youth Community Service Club (YCSC) conducted a clean up of the roadsides of Bulanao and Bulanao Norte on December 19. Organized by the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committees on Environment, Natural Resources and Energy and on Youth Development, the YCSC is a partner of the Tabuk City LGU and its barangays in carrying out environmental-related activities such as road cleaning, tree-planting and soil and water conservation.**Photo by Estanislao Albano, Jr.
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – The Environment, Natural Resources and Energy Committee of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) has mobilized key sectors in the community particularly barangay councils and college students towards the attainment and maintenance of a healthy environment in the city.
On December 14, the committee called the newly elected barangay officials to a meeting at the City Hall to orient them on and encourage them to implement existing environment-related ordinances in their barangays as well as to elicit from them their environmental concerns.
Aside from the environment ordinances of the city which City Environment and Natural Resources Officer Patricia Abibico explained, the ordinances of the province mandating regular cleaning in barangays and public elementary and high schools were also taken up during the meeting.
Aside from the environment ordinances of the city which City Environment and Natural Resources Officer Patricia Abibico explained, the ordinances of the province mandating regular cleaning in barangays and public elementary and high schools were also taken up during the meeting.
One agreement arrived at during the meeting is for a simultaneous cleaning in all 42 barangays from 8 to 12 noon of the second Saturday of January 2011 which is in line with Provincial Ordinance Number 2006-008 which mandates barangays to conduct community cleaning once every quarter.
To solve the problem of people in vehicles dumping garbage along roads in the city during the night, the committee decided to propose to the SP the passage of a resolution urging the provincial government to enforce its ordinance prohibiting and punishing such act.
To solve the problem of people in vehicles dumping garbage along roads in the city during the night, the committee decided to propose to the SP the passage of a resolution urging the provincial government to enforce its ordinance prohibiting and punishing such act.
Committee Chairman Antonio Bakilan said that if the provincial government cannot enforce the ordinance, that’s the time the SP will “see how we can discipline these garbage throwers.”
Regarding the request of Laya West kagawad Joey Lagmay that quarrying along the Chico River should not just be confined in upstream barangays but include Laya West so that the river water will have a path during heavy rains and not flood parts of the barangay, Abibico advised affected barangays to pass ordinances on proper quarrying and also to report their problem to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Regarding the problem of the garbage at the city dump site at Basao, Dilag finding their way to the nearby Aliog Creek during rains, Abibico said that if only the public would practice proper waste segregation in their homes, only the residual waste will be brought to the dump site thereby reducing the volume of garbage deposited there.
Regarding the request of Laya West kagawad Joey Lagmay that quarrying along the Chico River should not just be confined in upstream barangays but include Laya West so that the river water will have a path during heavy rains and not flood parts of the barangay, Abibico advised affected barangays to pass ordinances on proper quarrying and also to report their problem to the Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
Regarding the problem of the garbage at the city dump site at Basao, Dilag finding their way to the nearby Aliog Creek during rains, Abibico said that if only the public would practice proper waste segregation in their homes, only the residual waste will be brought to the dump site thereby reducing the volume of garbage deposited there.
Abibico also informed the committee and the barangay officials that the city government has already warned hospitals in the locality against the practice of disposing their hazardous waste in the Dilag dump site because, according to the law, there should be exclusive receptacles for these.
During the meeting, Bakilan also informed the barangay officials of the ordinance recently passed by the SP mandating national government agencies and government owned and controlled corporations intending to implement projects which tend to adversely affect the environment to consult with the city government.
He urged the barangay officials to ask the proponents for proof that their project has already been cleared by the city government otherwise they should not allow the projects to proceed.
He urged the barangay officials to ask the proponents for proof that their project has already been cleared by the city government otherwise they should not allow the projects to proceed.
Bakilan told the barangay officials to be wary because the proponents who are motivated by personal interest usually employ glib talk and play down the dangers their projects will bring to the environment.
Bakilan said that the SP just turned down the request of two mining firms to explore for minerals in several barangays in the city “because the harm they will bring will be more than the good they will bring.”
The committee along with the Committee on Youth Development of which Bakilan is vice chairman is also tapping the youth in the maintenance of a healthy environment through the organization of the Youth Community Service Club (YCSC).
Bakilan said that the SP just turned down the request of two mining firms to explore for minerals in several barangays in the city “because the harm they will bring will be more than the good they will bring.”
The committee along with the Committee on Youth Development of which Bakilan is vice chairman is also tapping the youth in the maintenance of a healthy environment through the organization of the Youth Community Service Club (YCSC).
The YCSC aims among others to “develop insight and concern about the perennial problems of our community and people” and to “evolve commitment and consequently, involvement in the solution” of these problems.
According to Bakilan, the YCSC will be involved in the cleaning of public places, tree-planting, water and soil conservation and even in non-formal education.
The first set of officers of the YCSC headed by its president Rosalyn Lao-ang of the C-ACT were inducted on December 18,2010.
The first set of officers of the YCSC headed by its president Rosalyn Lao-ang of the C-ACT were inducted on December 18,2010.
During the same occasion, the club also formulated their action plan for the coming year after which they conducted roadside cleaning in Bulanao and Bulanao Norte and planted trees at the Provincial Capitol grounds.**
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