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==[[Sorsogon News]]==
==[[Sorsogon News]]==
'''Bishop condemns ill effects of mining in Sorsogon'''
'''Kasanggayahan Children’s Day highlights storytelling, visual art workshop'''
*Source: http://sorsogoncity.wordpress.com/2011/10/23/bishop-condemns-ill-effects-of-mining-in-sorsogon/
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r05&id=60774
*October 23, 2011
*Monday, October 24, 2011
:by   SONNY SALES
:by Irma A. Guhit






SORSOGON CITY (Oct. 21, 2011) – Outspoken Sorsogon bishop, Arturo Bastes told local news group “Media Solutions” how Iron ore mining is slowly destroying the environment in Matnog, Sorsogon, as he also opposed a planned geothermal exploration around Bulusan
SORSOGON CITY, October 24 (PIA) -- Tomas Leonor, advocate for cancer stricken children through his famous one-man walk all over the country, was one of the key storytellers in the Read Along Program for kids here, an advocacy program for literacy awareness through reading of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
volcano that poses risks to communities.
With Leonor was Councilor Rosalia Laganzo Enerio from Sorsogon as main story tellers.
 
The children’s day activity included the Doodle Earth Visual Arts Workshop where children were exposed to the opportunity of creativity using water color and and water soluble paints for mask making, face painting, environmental art and basic painting for kids know-how.
During the “Ecumenical Bishop’s Forum” held in Legazpi City, the effects of mining in the Bicol region was discussed and Bastes dared pro-mining officials in Sorsogon to live with the poor people in the mining areas.
The read-along event formed part of the Kasanggayahan Festival 2011 Children’s Day (KFCD) Visual Arts Fair which held at the Aemilianum Gymnasium here last Saturday, Oct. 22, according to Sorsogon Arts Council spokesperson Joseph John Perez .
 
Isabel Gile, events coordinator of the KFCD explained that the facilitators in the activity were Sorsoganon Fine Arts students of the University of the Philippines together with the Sorsogon State College architecture students.
The Bishop lamented at the forum that “only the poor are at a disadvantage as the environment is ravaged, while officials who profit from mining are safe in the comforts of their mansions.”
Gile said that these students would also like to share their talents to the children to signify the enhancement of visual arts appreciation for children.
 
Performances from pre-school pupils were also shown while food chain mascots here performed magical tricks for children.
Bastes added, “the poor have no other choice but to stay in their localities destroyed by mining.”
Gile and Perez said that this year’s KFCD will promote the literacy campaign of PDI, Eugenia Duran-Apostol, founder of PDI being a true blue Sorsoganon and would like to make Sorsogon a province that will spearhead this advocacy.
 
Meanwhile, the Red Roots Artist Cooperative’s Doodle Earth Workshop according to Perez is more on the enhancement of environmental awareness for children expressed through visual art.
The Bishop also expressed strong support to the case filed by anti-mining advocates in Sorsogon against the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and local officials related to the destructive mining ventures in Matnog, Sorsogon, still pending before the sala of executive judge Victor Gella in Sorsogon City.
Hundreds of children from the province participated in the activity. Parents lauded the organizers while observing the transfer of knowledge the children gained from the fun activities presented. (MAL/IAG, PIA Sorsogon)
 
Named respondents in the said case are Environment Sec. Ramon Paje, Sorsogon, Gov. Raul Lee, Mines and Geosciences Bureau Director Reynulfo Juan and officials of the concerned mining firms.
 
Bishop Bastes also supports the residents of Barcelona, Bulusan, Irosin, Juban and Casiguran towns in Sorsogon in their opposition to the geothermal exploration that has recently been given a go-ahead by the Department of Energy under Geothermal Resource Energy Service Contract (GRESCO) no. 2010 – 01– 015 granting SKI Construction Group the permit to explore geothermal source at the base of the active volcano.
 
The Bishop’s Ecumenical forum questioned the sufficiency of studies of the Department of Energy on the safety of residents at the base of Mt. Bulusan and possible ill of extracting geothermal energy from an active volcano. (SONNY SALES)


==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines==
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