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Trees Planted Directly On Road Right Of Way

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By Loejan S. Anudon

The Manila North Road (MNR) expansion project by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) has long been a contentious issue among motorists and commuters who travel the route regularly. They have been calling for this exact undertaking. The road widening initiative is an inevitable consequence of the burgeoning population, increase of transport vehicles and improving trade and industry.

The trees that are within the Road-Right-Of-Way (RROW) directly impact the ongoing development and it is an unfortunate necessity that many, including old-grown trees are eliminated to bring the MNR up to code and ensure the safety of motorists and pedestrians alike. The cuttings were legitimated with valid permits attested to by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) officials in the course of the investigation proceedings by the members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan on March 3 and 10, 2014 SP regular sessions.

The elimination of the trees particularly from the town of Villasis to Sison generated varying degrees of distress from environmentalists. It turned into a sensationalized issue when they expressed their opposition through the media.

The image of felled trees along the roadside can be a distressing sight, admittedly, but this could have been avoided if only they were planted in appropriate places.

They were planted too close to the roadway and in violation of the National Building Code of the country. Nonetheless, there has long been an effort made for their replacement as evinced in the 2010 budget item for Tree Right of Way.

There was never any permit that allowed the planting of trees within the RROW. There has never been a ratification to violate the RROW or the National Building Code. Why is it condoned?

As per a Memorandum-Of-Agreement (MOA) between the DENR and the DPWH, one hundred tree seedlings must be planted on specified locations in exchange for every tree felled. That provision includes their care and nurture until they can survive on their own.

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Road Widening Project Needs Support Not Censure

On its initial hearing on March 3, 2014, only the heads from the DENR and DPWH Regional and District offices were summoned to appear before the members of the Sangguniang Panlalawigan to answer their queries. Some SP members took the pleasure trying to find culpabilities and flexibility from the implementing agencies. The invitation to meet was designed to place blame and even to the point of threatening criminal charges.

Inevitably, an extended hour was called for and on the second hearing, the former 5th District Representative of Pangasinan, Mark Cojuangco, now executive assistant to Congresswoman Kimi Cojuangco on infrastructures and known to be the major proponent to the elimination of the trees was invited along with the critics who are either members or leaders of concerned organizations led by Fr. Robert Reyes who is from Manila.

The former congressman explained again the fact that the road widening and tree cutting initiative was legally implemented and approved by the proper agencies. He patiently answered questions and offered powerful arguments for the road expansion and removal of trees. The heads of the implementing agencies also contributed judicious rationales to the many criticisms thrown at them: criticisms that were designed to pander to the emotions and sentimentalism of the people without taking into consideration the practicality of their complaints.

Mark Cojuangco, a stalwart prime mover of the road development of the MNR particularly in Pangasinan aggressively campaigns for the “Tree-Right-Of-Place” (TROP) that he also bade those opposed to come to his aid. He sought their assistance to appeal to the national government to include funding for TROP in its budgetary request for the 2015 GAA.

The TROP as proposed by Cojuangco will be a tree containing structure to be constructed at the edge of the 5 meters setback. Each container is circular, 36 square meters (6 meters in diameter) for every tree and will be spaced approximately 50 meters between trees, depending on the availability of the area.

(Above photo) Former Pangasinan Representative Mark Cojuangco (right) shows to TV newscast reporter, Ms. Ces Drilon sample of the proposed TROP area.

Rather than obstructing the ongoing activity of clearing trees along the highway, concerned citizens should now put their activism into ensuring that more trees are planted to conform to zoning standards, with proper planning and taking into consideration future developments in all the areas along the highway. Plan, donate or contribute to acquisition of lands where trees can be planted so that they will not become impediments and threat to safety; places where law could fully govern their eternal preservation irrevocably. It’s the most responsible thing to do. If one refutes for something, be ready with solutions and be prepared to live with the costs and consequences.

(Above photos) Sample of proposed TROP location at the edge of the 5 meters road setback in Pozorrubio, Pangasinan.

Provide solutions instead of stonewalling projects that are already approved and ongoing. Politicians here need to start standing up. We need to realize we can’t have everything. However, economic development and the environment can be made to happen mutually with proper planning and balance. “With thought and imagination, both can be made hand in hand”, Cojuangco said.

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Efficient Roadways Equalize the Classes

The MNR is a major artery to North/South travel. It has become congested and more hazardous as the number of vehicles increased along with the population along the highway. This increased accidents and injury for all users and decreased its efficiency as a thoroughfare. Immense time, money and business deals were also chafed due to the impediment.

The ongoing road widening project aims to ease the congestion and propel efficiency and improvements in trade and transport. This ensures immense relief to the riding public and students alike, in going to and from their places of works and universities they are enrolled in. Market vendors, farmers, all are dependent on roads. Roads facilitate commerce, thus bringing more wealth to those who would have no access otherwise. The roads also bring to poor communities progress. If the roads were not there or substandard, the communities who profit from tourism, for example, will lose the benefit of having rich travelers visit their communities and bring in much needed revenue. Delivery of harvests to supermarkets to as far as Manila to any point of the country is hardly effective. Efficient roadways give the poor the same mobility as the rich.

Efficient roadways and transportation system do a great job equalizing the classes.

The road RROW of the MNR by law is twenty meters and the National Building Code requires five more meters on each side which is equivalent to a total of thirty meters wide; a standard that is barely met in some sections and largely ignored in others.

Manila laboriously tries to formulate workable solutions to alleviate its abysmal traffic congestion; road expansions and similar projects were made. It already has the alternating number system to reduce the number of vehicles on the road but all is not working so well because of the absence of proper planning beforehand. The roads are still congested.

What we wish to avoid are the mistakes in Metro Manila which are now very expensive to correct. Here in the province, we still do not have to demolish high rises. Do we want to wait till it is too expensive? Or should we exercise foresight, and do it now so that we do not waste the peoples’ capital?

Let not Manila’s difficulty be a repeated mistake here in Pangasinan.

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(Above photo) Former Pangasinan Representative Mark Cojuangco (right) shows to TV newscast reporter, Ms. Ces Drilon sample of the proposed TROP area.

COJUANGCO DECLARES RUN FOR GOVERNORSHIP

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(left) Former 5th District Representative Mark Cojuangco ambushed by local media for interview after the State of the Nation Address of Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr.

2nd District Representative Leopoldo Bataoil (left) with Mark Cojuangco prior to the start of the SOPA.

(left) Bautista town Mayor Amadeo T. Espino with Mark Cojuangco after the SOPA. At the center is Mayor Silverio Alarcio, Jr. of Laoac town. (Below) Mark Cojuangco talks to Bautista town officials after the SOPA.

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(left) Former 5th District Representative Mark Cojuangco ambushed by local media for interview after the State of the Nation Address of Gov. Amado T. Espino, Jr.

2nd District Representative Leopoldo Bataoil (left) with Mark Cojuangco prior to the start of the SOPA.

(left) Bautista town Mayor Amadeo T. Espino with Mark Cojuangco after the SOPA. At the center is Mayor Silverio Alarcio, Jr. of Laoac town. (Below) Mark Cojuangco talks to Bautista town officials after the SOPA.

Rep. Kimi Cojuangco highlights Urdaneta City Fiesta 2013 Grand Parade

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Another year has passed and once again Urdaneta City celebrates its beginning. The city has come a long way since it was founded. With every passing year Urdaneta continues to grow and develop.

As we move towards the future, it is important to remember our past and where we came from. The same is true for Urdaneta. The city has grown and come a long way since it was founded. With every step it takes with it its rich heritage and culture.

The city’s past, and that of its people, helps it forge ahead into the future. With Urdaneta’s rich past, the trials faced and overcome, the lessons learned, the achievements earned, I am certain it can face the challenges ahead and will continue towards greatness.

Let us use this opportunity to celebrate our beautiful city. Celebrate the road that led us here. Celebrate the city’s history and future. Be proud of all the progress Urdaneta has seen. Most of all be proud of yourselves as people of Urdaneta for you are the reason behind its greatness.

Urdaneta City Fiesta 2013 Grand Parade

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FINE MOMENTS WITH 5TH DISTRICT BHWs

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PANGASINAN 5TH DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE FILES INTERNET FREEDOM BILL

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CUTTING OFF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE!

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CUTTING OFF YOUR NOSE TO SPITE YOUR FACE! – A common saying befitting the recent move of the national government to obliterate the Php45M yearly upkeep allocation for the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Morong, Bataan.

The BNPP is an exigent issue that should be given utmost priority on the floor. The projected rotating brownouts and high cost of electricity are plagues that continuously cripple the country’s economy. The relentless rise of electric cost in the country triggers the incessant demand for wage increases. It also causes prices on all commodities to soar as fast in the market that, eventually, the people are pinned to suffer.Loss of livelihoods, closure of foreign and local businesses and mass layoffs are also imminent consequences.

The move to thwart the upkeep of the BNPP will lead to the denial of one of the major means that could emancipate the country from regression. The BNPP is a viable source of energy and what if the next Philippine president will understand the value when he reaps the benefit of this endowment? There has never been any irrevocable ruling to the BNPP’s re-commissioning or final closure so why such move to capitulate its upkeep unless it is aimed to deteriorate it intentionally?

Former Pangasinan Representative Mark Cojuangco reiterated the importance of the mothballed BNPP during a tour at the site in Morong, Bataan on August 3, 2013. He said that the BNPP is significantly safer than that in Fukushima, Japan. The Fukushima power plant could have stood the devastation of the Tsunami had it been designed like the BNPP which has a seismic acceleration of higher threshold equivalent to 0.4G than that of the former with only 0.18G, he added.

The BNPP is younger than 70 percent of nuclear plants currently operating in the United States, thus an attestation to its dependability. The Kori II, BNPP’s virtual twin in age and design in Korea has been operating perfectly since its inception and the cost of the plant was recovered in just six years of operation, the former solon emphasized.

Negative speculations and irrational fear could have been the only basis of the suspension and, normally,

Is the government sincere in its reforms for development? Reliable and low-cost electricity is the incessant cry of all the Filipino people. Local and foreign businesses point to the high cost and undependable source of electricity as one major deterrent in enticing new investors to the country, hampering progress and development. The Joint Foreign Chambers of the Philippines (JFC) and the Employers’ Confederation of the Philippines (ECOP) are being blamed as heartless by TUCP executive vice president Gerardo Seno. However, TUCP president Democrito Mendoza said they sympathize with the business group’s campaign to roll down the cost of electricity. The JFC, ECOP and TUCP should unite to press for the re-commissioning of the BNPP.

To resort to wind and sun as what is being indoctrinated by former US vice president, Al Gore is not a stable source of energy. in power supply could result to considerable damages and losses to highly sensitive processes of giant industrial firms; accurate reading results to delicate hospital apparatuses is also largely compromised that can situate patients critically.

Coal has been eyed as a redeemer but obviously, this is simply to evade the services of the BNPP. Eventually, it will situate us all in jeopardy. “There’s no such thing as clean coal, it is still coal, dirty coal!” says Dr. Marc Caratao, a Filipino engineer trained by Al Gore. Coal is a dirty source of energy.

Everything with the word “nuke” in it always

The ill consequences of the interminable political supremacy always settle on the people and the feared political impact that the BNPP could possibly spawn is what is being eyed on more than the benefit it could bestow … tributaries that keep our country constantly miserable.

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KIMI WINS 2ND TERM BY LANDSLIDE IN 2013 POLLS

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The incumbent Pangasinan 5th District Representative, Kimi Cojuangco, won a second term in congress by an overwhelming landslide over her rival. Returning to the House of Representatives as a second term congresswoman, she is no longer the novice representative but will be a seasoned veteran, all the more qualified to lead her constituents to greater things.

Political contenders immediately amplified their campaign strategies at the start of the campaign season which started after midnight of March 31, 2013; vying to put their names forward for the 2013 senatorial and local polls. While many chose elaborate schemes to gain the attention of voters, the 5th District representative chose a simpler plan of action.

Instead of holding colossal rallies or using mass media advertisements to garner votes, the congresswoman instead continued the grassroots movement that she has become known for: reaching out to the people directly, face to face and one on one. It is a strategy that served her well as mayor and congresswoman. It is what gives her the insight and unique perspective to empathize with and to foresee the needs of those she serves.

During the election season, she was out and ready to go before the sun has even fully risen, utilizing a motorcade to visit every barangay in her district. Braving the heat of the summer sun, armed with what became her signature floppy hat, scarf and her winning smile, she rode through dusty roads aboard a kaleidoscopic lorry.

Barangay residents who otherwise would be ensconced inside their houses and under the shade of trees to escape the summer heat came out in cheerful droves at the sound of her motorcade to catch a glimpse of their champion. The motorcade was often accompanied by allies who were also running for different positions in the province, district, city or municipality. At every barangay they visited, the streets were lined with supporters who came out to cheer and dance along with the parade, passing cars honked to show their support and tricycle drivers waved with enthusiasm at the sight of their representative. Most enthusiastic among her supporters were the women and children who have benefited the most from the various programs initiated during her congressional term. The lady Solon drew energy from their infectious smiles and good cheer. Bolstered by their zeal, the congresswoman of the 5th District was rejuvenated to continue the fight.

The triumphant result of the elections confirmed the overwhelming approval and support of those in the 5th District of Pangasinan for their beloved representative. The hope for ongoing success and progress in the region continues for yet another congressional term.

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What a waste and a disservice to our nation to trash the RH LAW.

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Today’s news Pope:defend poor,weak (headline);Church HAILS SC ruling on RH:God is on OUR sideISNT THIS WHAT RH IS ABOUT? DEFEND POOR, WEAK

— kimi cojuangco (@kimicojuangco)

To Church officials celebrating “God is on their Side” re RH SQAO, HE is on d side of those that CARE 4 d weak & poor. Not for the ARROGANT!

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RH LAW shld b deemed constitutionalby d SC.We mst never FORGET that we r talking abt survival & human lives.We r talking abt basic freedom

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What a waste and a disservice to our nation to trash the RH LAW. It would beunacceptable & disgusting to do so.

— kimi cojuangco (@kimicojuangco)

We are about to embark on a journey of progressive change by enabling the RH law. This legacy that empowers Poor Filipinos must proceed.

— kimi cojuangco (@kimicojuangco)

Been experiencing deep sighs & dissatisfaction after hearing the SC’s ruling re RH yesterday. But, I keep reminding myself that its not over

— kimi cojuangco (@kimicojuangco)

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BINALONAN MUSEUM LAUNCHED

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1973 Miss Universe Ms. Maria Margarita “Margie” Moran Floirendo

L-R: Mr. Danny Fernandez & Mrs. Teresita Dacpano, Mrs. Arlyn Grace Guico, Rep. Kimi Cojuangco, Ms. Margie Moran, Mayor Monmon Guico, SBM Eli Patague, SBM Alberto Espiritu, Jr.

Rep. Kimi S. Cojuangco

Binalonan Mayor Monmon V. Guico

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1973 Miss Universe Ms. Maria Margarita “Margie” Moran Floirendo

L-R: Mr. Danny Fernandez & Mrs. Teresita Dacpano, Mrs. Arlyn Grace Guico, Rep. Kimi Cojuangco, Ms. Margie Moran, Mayor Monmon Guico, SBM Eli Patague, SBM Alberto Espiritu, Jr.

Rep. Kimi S. Cojuangco

Binalonan Mayor Monmon

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KIMI GRACES LAOAC FIESTA AS GUEST OF HONOR DURING THE SB & BARANGAY NIGHT

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Happy Fiesta Laoac! With Mayor Alarcio and friends fr Laoac, Pangasinan.— kimi cojuangco (@kimicojuangco)

One way that people do to be real close to the congresswoman is to huddle to her side during photo ops which she always gladly acquiesce to. Mayor Silverio Alarcio, Jr. also takes delight having pictures with his constituents.

Mayor Alarcio, Kapitans and I. We still use the Eco friendly “Padyak” for deliveries in Bgy’s. Laoac, Pangasinan.— kimi cojuangco (@kimicojuangco)

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