{"id":810543,"date":"2016-08-29T01:21:18","date_gmt":"2016-08-28T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/?p=810543"},"modified":"2016-08-29T01:21:18","modified_gmt":"2016-08-28T17:21:18","slug":"gina-defends-denr-exec-not-happy-with-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinfo.inquirer.net\/810543\/gina-defends-denr-exec-not-happy-with-another","title":{"rendered":"Gina defends DENR exec; \u2018not happy\u2019 with another"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Environment Secretary Gina Lopez
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ENVIRONMENT Secretary Gina Lopez has taken up the cudgels for the former head of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) after antimining protesters called for his removal from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).<\/p>\n\n

In a protest turned dialogue on Tuesday, members of Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM), Sanlakas, Lilak and Philippine Movement for Climate Justice, among others, called on Lopez to rid the DENR of officials accused of corruption or inaction, including former MGB chief Leo Jasareno who now leads Lopez\u2019s mining audit and whom she earlier named a department undersecretary.<\/p>\n\n

The groups\u2019 members include farmers and residents of large-scale mining areas in Cagayan, Nueva Vizcaya, Zambales, Bulacan, Masbate, Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan.<\/p>\n\n

While praising Lopez\u2019s mining audit\u2014which has led to the closure of 10 mining sites in Zambales, Palawan, Bulacan and Surigao del Norte\u2014\u201cwe also call for serious reforms within the DENR and for its leadership to investigate and hold accountable officials found to have abused their authority or violated their mandate and engaged in corruption,\u201d ATM national coordinator Jaybee Garganera said.<\/p>\n\n

Sanlakas secretary general Aaron Pedrosa pointed out that Jasareno and other DENR officials had been named respondents in various cases filed by communities against destructive mining, including a petition for a writ of kalikasan and continuing mandamus against mining operations, and an Ombudsman complaint for malfeasance filed by Sta. Cruz, Zambales, residents. There was also a petition for continuing mandamus filed by residents of Manicani, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, over the continued hauling of mineral ore despite a DENR suspension order.<\/p>\n\n

Aside from Jasareno, the protesters named the other officials as former Secretary Ramon Paje, Environmental Management Bureau Director Juan Miguel Cuna, former Eastern Visayas MGB regional director and now Assistant Secretary Nonita Cagiuoa, and former Central Luzon MGB regional director and now MGB Assistant Director Danilo Uykieng.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lopez, who allowed the protesters to enter the DENR offices so she could meet with them personally, ended up defending Jasareno whom she called to join the meeting.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cYou have to believe in my judgment. I have the right and I want you to trust me. I want to choose the people I want to work with. I have worked with Leo even before and I\u2019m working with him now. He is a good man. He really is a good man. He\u2019s good, honest and dynamic. With Leo\u2019s able help, we have been able to close down 10 mines. We\u2019re gonna close down eight more,\u201d Lopez said.<\/p>\n\n

She, however, admitted that she was \u201cnot very happy\u201d with Cagiuoa, whom the groups accused of disobeying an order to suspend the hauling of mineral ore in Manicani.<\/p>\n\n

\u201cI told her, \u2018If you let me down again, I\u2019m very strict on corruption.\u2019 But some of them are appointees from Davao, so what can I do?\u201d Lopez said. \u201cBut the President has gone very strict on corruption, so if she goes wrong once, wala na.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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