City Council asks the Department of Public Works and Highways to address residents' concerns on livelihood and the environment, citing a lack of studies on the project's impact.
Cancabato BayThe 56-year-old resident of Barangay Paraiso told Rappler on Wednesday, May 24, the bay is his family’s main source of food and income.
The city council asked the DPWH to first address residents’ concerns on livelihood and the environment.Tacloban Councilor Aimee Grafil, chair of the environment committee, told Rappler that councilors believe the project lacks environmental study.The causeway project gets its rationale from Tacloban’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan 2017-2025. This claim underlies an infrastructure program that also includes dumping land on 400 hectares of water for a new central business district.
Cancabato Bay is a protected Mariculture Park. The bay yields products like fish, crabs, prawns, sea shells, and other marine resources.He called the causeway “really bad news for fisher folks.” Jedee Magoncia, advocacy officer of Kankabatok Kolektib told Rappler that the group wrote to Tacloban City Vice Mayor Edwin Chua on May 9, to express opposition to the causeway project.Anade and environmentalist Roque Regis also warned of the grave danger the infrastructure project represents to human lives.
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