Baguio mayor pledges full environmental protection
BAGUIO
CITY, Oct. 7 (PNA) - City mayor Reinaldo Bautista Jr. Monday pledged
for the full environmental protection of this mountain resort, 250
kilometers north of Manila, to recapture the "ambiance of woodlands of
the Summer Capital of the Philippines."
He
made the pledge during the third "Walk, Baguio Walk" ecological program
attended by more than 2,000 hikers, 90 percent of whom were government
officials and employees who reported for work by walking instead of
using motor vehicles.
The
program has been launched in this city to further bring down the
pollution level within the roads and campaign for energy conservation.
Bautista
said that the Baguio ecological programs include the future permanent
sanitary landfill in accordance with the specifications approved by the
World Bank (WB) which will cost the city several millions of pesos.
He
asked that the garbage program of the city should not be vehicle for
political grandstanding of the opposition "because this administration
inherited the problem unattended for past several years."
Bautista
said that the improvement of the parks and watersheds is part of
recapturing the former dense Benguet pines within the city limits.
(PNA)
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