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November 05, 2002



Mga Pinalangga Ko Nga Mga Mabuut Kag Talahuron Nga Mga Opisyales Sa Banwa It Pandan,

Mayad nga Adlaw kaninyo nga tanan. Daw masakit gid batyagun nga bangud lang sa sangka controversial nga prohekto, kita nga mga Pandananun nagakinagamo kag naga arawayay asta ang atun relasyon, ang atun pag-amigohay kag paghimataay daw harus gub-un kag samadun tang nasambit nga prohekto. Kanugon ya nga relationship, kanugon ya nga pag-urunungay kon mag-arawayay kag magharangitay kita just because of a disagreement between progress and the destruction of the environment. I think everyone of us agrees that we would rather have peace, than progress without peace.

Kami sa Pagtatap nagpadara run kaninyo tang amun oposisyon sa planta kag nagpamaan tang kahigku kag kasayudan tang epekto sa tawo, sa hayup kag mga tanum tang diesel powered plant nga ginaplano ninyo ipatindug sa atun banwa. Owa pa kami it nabaton o nabasa nga mga inpormasyon nahanungud sa benepisyo o advantage tang diesel powered plant ngaya. Harus tanan nga conclusion about diesel powered plants are bordering between condemnation and total disaster. Kon may ginakaptan kamo nga artikulo nga gapabor sa diesel powered plants, bukun it tuud ran, ginaloko lang nanda kita.

Kon ano man ang inyong rason o nakita nga benepisyo sa planta ngaya, indi run takun magsu-ay. Ang gusto ko lang ipaabot kaninyo amo ang sangka reminder nga ang atun banwa isara sa lima ka banwa tang Northwestern Panay Peninsula nga gindeclare ni Presidente Gloria Macapagal Arroyo nga protected area. Gusto ko ipamaan kaninyo nga kon indi gid mabungkag ang inyo nga disisyon kag idereteso ninyo it patindug ang planta sa Patria, I have no other choice but to talk to the President of the Republic. I will ask the help of our friends in the senate and in congress to stop this unkind destruction of our beautiful homeland. Parihas tang atun gira sa Semirara, mangayo kami it bulig sa amun mga migo sa ibang banwa, sa mga parokya, mga migo sa media sa dyario, sa radyo sa Channel 2, 4, 5, 7, 9 and 13 kag sa mga sympathetic environmental organizations all over the world para mangin mabaskog ang amun pagtindug kontra sa mahigku nga prohekto ngaya. Pananglit nga nakadisisyon run gid man kamo praber ninyo nabaton ya nga sulat and you decided for progress without peace, then so be it, there will be no peace.We will wage war in order to achieve peace in our homeland. Palihog lang koon sa mga taga Napocor nga kon nakagasto run sanda it doro tang andang personal money or taxpayers' money just to keep this vicious project moving, kon-a sanda nga indi run pag ubusa it waswas hay kanugon lang ran. We will see to it that this project will fail even if it takes our own blood to flow in our sacred shores. We will destroy this project at all cost by all means. We will not just stand and watch the toxins of this monster damage the blood and kill our children slowly and painfully. The ecosystem of Northern Panay must never be compromised for the sake of money kapin pa kon ang kwarta ngaran will lead to the irreparable destruction of our trees, rivers and seas, kapin pa kon ang kwarta nga ran will lead to an inevitable and horrible mutation and death of our people and other animals.

Sa congress nag-file run tang bill si Congressman Billie Calizo of Aklan to make the President's declaration ( made last April 25, 2002) a law agud nga bisan sin-o ang matulus nga presidente indi run maislan ang deklarasyon nga ang area nga ginasakup it lima ka banwa it Pandan, Libertad, Malay, Buruanga kag Navas is considered a protected area and therefore no structure or business is allowed to be constructed in this area that will compromise the ecosystem of the peninsula. If this bill becomes a law and certainly it will, we the residents of Northwestern Panay Peninsula will forever have the right to stop the construction or demolish whatever structure or business in the area that will be proven hazardous, detremental and poisonous to the environment and to its inhabitants.

Ang atun run lang nga area ang nabilin nga rain forest sa bilog nga isla it Panay. We should be proud of it not destroy it. Doro ang naibot kanatun nga mga banwa kag nasyon because of the beauty of our wilderness in Northern Panay. God must have loved us more that's why He favored us to be the preserver of the last frontier in the island. We owe it to God, to the environment and to our children to keep that responsibilty. Tapos pasugtan lang tana natun ang mga invaders to destroy this last piece of sacred land just because of money? Or as they say because of progress? Look what progress are they talking about? Sa diin nga banwa ang ginpa progress it Napocor? Look what they did to Pangasinan. Look what they did to Batangas. Can you call it progress nga nagbarakwit ang mga tawo from the area where the power plant is because they cannot stand the poisons and the toxins that rendered their fishfonds and farms inhabitable? Tan-awa ninyo kon ano kabahol ang utang it Napocor sa mga nasambit nga probinsya. Ano nabaydan bala nanda ang andang mga utang? Read how much money they squandered last year and the year before that and the year before that. Napocor has no money. Poto na. It's a losing corporation. Dimalas because it is corrupt. Puro lang sanda ran kabi. Selfish kon sa binisaya pa. Their intention to serve the people and to protect the environment is only secondary to their greed. Doro sanda it utang which they can never pay unless mangutang roman. They will pay their biggest creditors first before they think of Pandan. Daskan lang tatun karan it higku kag sangsangun it listahan tang utang. Can you call it progress nga mga imol man gyapon kag pobre ang mga pumoluyo kag nangin masakitun kag maniwang pa ang mga tawo sa mga banwa nga andang ginpromisahan it progress? What the hell do they care? Pandan is not their town. Our town's death will bring them more money so what's the problem my boy? The moment these people from Napocor get what they want from us, they will surely leave us nga daw linugus nga daraga. And that's what they are doing at present. Feeding us with juicy promises of progress, kon magtambok run gani amo man ang andang pag ihaw. Ginainto lang tatun it mga traidor ngaran. No one can stop them kon hala lang tatun sugut. Let us stop them before they destroy us. We should have not entertained their proposals from the very start just like what other towns did. A diesel powered plant is like tinga nga ginatupra it tanan beacuse of its toxins. It is an obsolete and the most polluting-power-generating machine ever invented. Pat ginadasuk tana kanatun it Napocor ang tinga nga ran haw? If they care for us they should have not offered that discarded, delapidated, malfunctioning machine from Batangas to us. If they really care for us, if they really care for all Filipinos Napocor should have pursued the less expensive and the environment-friendly source of power like the wind-run and solar-run power generating machines which developed countries are doing. Why stick to the old system? Because busdik ang bulsa nanda sa old system that's why. Abaw Ginoo ko ano run lang bay tun ipabugal kon owa run kita it limpyo nga suba, sapa kag baybay? Ano run lang bay tun ipabugal kon puro run kita anemic, tibihon kag aroon sa atun? Magaprogreso ang banwa , may kuryente, may diesel but at what prize? The health of the people? The death of our very source of food, the fishes, the vegetables and our domestic animals?

Kabay pa mga hingugma namun nga opisyales it Pandan nga magiyahan kamo it Ginoo sa inyong disisyon nga palabyon ninyo ang kalusugan kag kaaraydan it mga tawo nga inyong ginpromishan nga serbihan. Kabay pa nga makita ninyo mga abyan mga kaparyentehean ang mga mistakes and errors tang ibang nasyon kag tang mga banwa nga nagpatindug it planta sa andang lugar. Kabay pa nga mabatyagan ninyo nga ang kalibutan ngaya is not only for us who live at the present but also for those unborn who will pay dearly for whatever destruction we do now to our beloved land. It's the only one we got. Please let's be one in this noble endeavor, let us unite and take good care of our pinalanggang Pandan. Indi kita dapat mag-arawayay sa bahol nga problema ngaya with a very simple solution: SAY NO TO NAPOCOR. God bless you all kag doro gid nga salamat kaninyo nga tanan.

Respectfully,



Bob Alojipan, MD
President and Chairman
Pagtatap Foundation Inc.


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