Fishkill is about corruption
Posted on June 18, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Ronaldo Castanaga
18 June 2007
Mr. Carrera,
I share your sentiment on the fishkill incident that would soon wipe out your favorites of oysters, bangus, jumbo shrimps, etc. These are my favorites too, less on meat and more on vegetable like balatong with ampalaya leaves and dry pinakbet.
Fishkill is a recurring problem in Dagupan, in Lingayen and other coastal towns. Our gov't officials don't seem to know the solution to it. They care less or do nothing.
Like the provincial board, and city mayors, they care more about payroll padding to reward their campaign supporters. One fifth of local revenues go to corruption.
Fishkill solution is so simple. We studied this in one of our science class at Manantan Tech in Urdaneta and my teacher said, all we need is a strong enforcement of local environmental laws that forbid dumping of waste of any kind (domestic, piggery and industrial) to tributaries that feeds into streams and rivers that eventually channeled into the coastlines. These untreated wastes are toxins to all fish or aquatic animals.
And these fish pens owned by powerful politicians, corrupt policemen and businessmen clog the outflow from rivers and what remained are stagnant poisonous water. No fish pens or any kind allowed at rivers. Rivers are public properties and can't be leased to any one.
From these, you can tell how incompetent and mediocre our government officials are in Pangasinan today. It's good we voted them out this election year and the new crop of officials are many times better off than their negligent predecessors guaranteeing that business is back in Pangasinan.
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