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Hagedorn charges Napocor with destruction of mangroves . . .

Thursday, May 15, 2008 [ manilatimes.net ]

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY: Puerto Princesa City Mayor Edward Hagedorn and leaders of two environment legal groups filed charges against Napocor officials led by the head of the Small Power Utilities Group (SPUG) and local employees responsible for “the wanton, senseless and unconscionable destruction of century-old and maturing mangrove trees” in various barangays in the city.

Environment lawyer Antonio Oposa, a fellow United Nations Global 500 awardee of Hagedorn for contributions to environment conservation and protection, and lawyer Gerthie Mayo Anda of the Environmental Legal Assistance Center filed the charges before the city prosecutors’ office.

They were charged with illegal conversion of mangroves, illegal use of chain saws and violation of the Palawan Council for Sustainable Development regulation prohibiting the cutting of mangroves that are classified as forest reserves.

Hagedorn also sought the ouster of Lorenzo Marcelo, head of the Napocor-SPUG which manages the various island power grids including Palawan and Puerto Princesa. The concept of command responsibility demands that SPUG head Lorenzo Marcelo either resigns or is removed from his post for the irreversible damage Napocor-SPUG committed in our city, Hagedorn said.

As of latest count, 196 fully grown mangrove trees mostly century-old maturing 30-year-old to 60-year-old trees in Barangay Lucbuan were senselessly and unconscionably felled by chain saws.

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