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AT 4 a.m. yesterday, the center of Tropical Storm “PABLO” was estimated at 530 km West of Calapan, Oriental Mindoro (13.3°N,115.8°E) with maximum sustained winds of 110 kph and gustiness of up to of 140 kph. It is forecast to move West Northwest slowly. Northeast Monsoon affecting Northern Luzon. Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) affecting Mindanao. Mindanao will be cloudy skies with light to moderate rainshowers and thunderstorms.Elsewhere, light to moderate winds coming from the east to southeast with slight to moderate seas. source : pagasa
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www.mindanaodailybalita.com VOL. 2, No. 174
Cagayan de Oro City
Saturday
December 8, 2012
P10.00
‘Pablo’ causes lesser damage in Agusan Sur Fieldmen from the Provincial General Services Office in Agusan del Sur clear the roads leading to the provincial capitol from fallen Acacia trees. Photo by Chris V. Panganiban
By CHRIS V. PANGANIBAN of Mindanao Daily News
S A N Fr an c i s c o, Agusan del Sur–– There was lesser impact than expected from the damages to lives and properties wrought by Typhoon Pablo in this province.
Gov. Adolph Edward Plaza was elated to learn that contrary to the worst scenario they expected from the super typhoon, the impact in Agusan del Sur was lesser even as the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (PDRRMC) has been on 24-hour alert since Monday. “It’s good that we experienced lesser rainfall,” Plaza said adding that typhoon Sendong in December last year has took a bigger damage to crops and properties. The PDRRMC has reported yesterday that there were six persons killed, five pablo | page 10
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Nothing’s left standing of the building of an old rice mill in Sta. Josefa. Photo courtesy of former mayor Dicken Otero
Mining blamed for tragic effect of ‘Pablo’ By ALEX D. LOPEZ Davao Today
Conveners of the Manilakbayan (Journey to Manila) campaign for environment and human rights in Mindanao hold mining companies accountable for the devastation wrought by storm Pablo in the island. “This typhoon would not have been this tragic if not for the logging and foreign mining companies ravaging our mineral resources,” Sr. Stella Matutina, convener of Manilakbayan said. Matutina refers to largescale mining companies, as small scale mining activities, she cited, “have been practicing sustainable mining.” Matutina and 70 other indigenous peoples, tribal leaders and victims of human rights violations are here in Manila for a series of activities to call to stop foreign large scale destructive mining and agribusiness plantations in Mindanao. Dulphing Ogan, a Blaan leader from Sarangani, who is one of the delegates of Manilakbayan, said it is mining that have aggravated the disasters which resulted to massive deaths and deFLOODWATERS carry this mining machine toward the Bulao Bridge in Barangay Canitoan in Cagayan de Oro City when struction of typhoon Pablo. Typhoon Pablo which Super Typhoon Pablo struck Northern Mindanao on December 4. The machine is a living proof that mining operations in Cagayan de Oro and nearby towns is still alive and kicking despite mining ban.
mining | page 10
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