{"id":58909,"date":"2015-08-12T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=58909"},"modified":"2025-01-18T00:13:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T05:13:35","slug":"groups-intervene-in-canada-garbage-court-case-in-manila-rtc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/08\/12\/groups-intervene-in-canada-garbage-court-case-in-manila-rtc\/","title":{"rendered":"Groups intervene in Canada garbage court case in Manila RTC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MANILA\u00a0— The EcoWaste Coalition, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Public Services Labor Confederation, Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa and Ang NARS Party-list, and private individuals, have filed a motion to intervene in a criminal case filed against the importer and customs brokers of the Canadian garbage for violation of Republic Act 6969, the Toxic Substances and Hazardous andNuclear Wastes Control Act.<\/p>\n

The groups are seeking the court’s permission to be allowed to intervene in the case to enforce the obligation of the accused to return the illegal trash imports pursuant to R.A. 6969.<\/p>\n

The groups filed their motion for intervention, along with the complaint-in-intervention, on July 22 with Branch 1 of the Regional Trial Court of Manila. The first hearing is set on August 19.<\/p>\n

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The groups intervened \u201cto prevent the further dumping of the illegal trash imports in the country and for the imported garbage to be sent back to Canada in line with R.<\/p>\n

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A. 6969 and the Basel Convention, especially since there were moves from the prosecutor and the owner of the container vans to allow the disposition of the garbage locally,” explained Rene Pineda of the EcoWaste Coalition, one of the intervenors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe fear that such moves will gravely affect the health of the populace and the environment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The intervening groups and individuals believed that their collective action to oppose foreign waste disposal into the national territory is in accordance with Sections 15 and 16 of Article 2 of the 1987 Constitution.<\/p>\n

Sections 15 provides that “the State shall protect and promote the right to health of the people and instill health consciousness among them,\u201d while Section 16 provides states that \u201cthe State shall protect and advance the right of the people to a balanced and healthful ecology.”<\/p>\n

Allowing the disposal of Canada\u2019s garbage in local landfills or other facilities will undoubtedly set a very bad example that will put human and ecological health at risk and should be resisted, the intervenors said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, senior statesman Aquilino \u201cNene\u201d Pimentel, former Senate president, recently stated that \u201cthe Philippines is not a garbage dump of Canada or any country for that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTarlac government units are right and they should be commended for asserting their constituents\u2019 human right to clean air and environment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pimentel was referring to the successful action by the Tarlac local authorities to investigate and stop the further dumping of Canadian trash in the town of Capas.<\/p>\n

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MANILA\u00a0— The EcoWaste Coalition, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Public Services Labor Confederation, Sentro ng mga Nagkakaisa at Progresibong Manggagawa …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":45844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-philippines-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285135,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58909\/revisions\/285135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}