A Pressing letter to President Rodrigo Duterte who is being controlled by his counsel to sign the agreement for the kaliwa dam venture with chinese President Xi Jinping on November 11, 2018
It will put 100,000 lives at serious risk.
While Manila is currently planning for the Big One seismic tremor of the Marikina West Valley Fault, the proposed 60-meter Kaliwa Dam will be developed inside a zone of two dynamic tectonics spoke to by the Philippine Fault Zone and the Valley Fault System. The Agos Dam site is found just 7-8 kilometers from the Philippine Fault Zone (Infanta Fault). On the off chance that a functioning deficiency is close by the proposed dam site, two significant issues can happen and will incredibly influence the plan of the proposed structures, in particular: 1.) seismicity brought about by the quakes happening in dynamic flaw zone; and 2.) twisting in dam-establishment brought about by the development of dynamic shortcomings. The majority of the proposed dam destinations would be liable to high top increasing speed and are presented to commonly serious level of seismicity.
Along the Philippine Fault, there were some huge scope tremors that were recorded previously and the general development of 6 cm was seen in the time of 1991 to 1993. It tends to be said that the Philippine Fault Zone can possibly cause high seismic action, as what have been recorded in the July 18, 1880 tremor where the old places of worship of Infanta, Mauban (both in Quezon territory) and Manila Cathedral were crushed (Page 3-11 of The 2003 aftereffects of JICA study "The Study on Water Resources Development for Metro Manila in the Republic of the Philippines"). "Indeed, even with its best innovation, Japan was gotten level footed with its 2011 quake".
It violets the law.
To consent to the two-sided credit arrangement through ODA for the Kaliwa Dam Project would basically disregard R.A. 8173 and R.A. 7586. As of recently there is no Free, Prior and Informed Consent ever given by the Dumagat-Remontados for this development as needed by R. A. 8173. Neither has there been an Environmental Compliance Certificate as needed by R.A. 7586 but then your counsels have booked the marking on November 11, 2018.
It is an obligation trap.
By declining to be straightforward on the Kaliwa Dam notwithstanding your Freedom of Information E.O. 2, your guides have adequately forestalled an unequivocally based logical investigation of the Dam. For all their manner of speaking your counselors are making ready to an obligation trap. They are just copying Sri Lanka's Hambantota air terminal and seaport experience during the tyranny of Mahinda Rajapaksa. Both air terminal and seaport became liabilities to such an extent that Sri Lanka needed to rent the seaport for a very long time. Malaysia's recently chosen Mahatir has dropped ventures with China to try not to be caught.
It is overlooks the effect of environmental change.
The breakdown of the dams in Vietnam and in Myanmar a couple of months prior, the Itogon misfortune, the avalanche in Naga City, Cebu and the latest episode in Natonin, Mountain Province are sufficient signs that the effect of environmental change can not, at this point be disregarded. These should show the Philippines to tune in to the proposal of the World Commission on Dams not to fabricate enormous dams any longer.
The Philippines is overwhelmed with downpour water. Advance the woodland, not dam venture.
The proposed NCWS-Kaliwa Dam Project will immerse 291 hectares of timberland from the 9,800-hectare backwoods in Infanta Kaliwa Watershed, including the consecrated site of Dumagat-Remontado in the regions of Tinipak in Brgry. Daraitan, Tanay, Rizal. Kaliwa Dam additionally plans to get 600 MLD (Million Liters for each Day) of water in the Kaliwa waterway through embarkment dam of 60 meters high, shipped by means of movement burrow with 4 meters in distance across to Tanay and Antipolo Water Treatment Plants. This will enormously influence water system framework that reasonably bolsters Infanta rice storage facility and it will evaporate springs providing ground-water hotspot for Infanta Quezon Water District (IQWD) adjusting its general population.
Development of Big Dams are not by any means the only response to the approaching water emergency in Metro Manila, there are numerous other manageable alternatives. Why not store the insurance and recovery of our debased watersheds and existing dams, and not the development of another enormous dams? It is uplifting news for the climate and can spare us from an Earth-wide temperature boost, yet terrible news for the speculators who just need benefits to the detriment of gigantic deforestation and network separations. The public authority can likewise command downpour water assortment modules and water protection measures, particularly for the family units and large developments/townhouses, just as organizations, businesses, industrial facilities and inn administrators inside the Metro Manila, rather than burning through billions for dams without the confirmation of accomplishment.
References:
https://haribon.org.ph/stop-kaliwa-dam/
https://www.change.org/p/president-rodrigo-duterte-stop-kaliwa-dam-save-our-future
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