DAVAO CITY (Mindanews / 10 October) — In July 2017, the Davao Shrine Hills Advocates criticized the lack of coordination among government agencies with regards to both Shrine Hills slope protection and the Diversion Road widening.
In response, Dean Ortiz, the DPWH (Department of Public Works and Highways) spokesman, maintained that, if the local government unit would identify slope protection as among its major projects around Shrine Hills, DPWH would readily comply if it was within the national agency’s mandate.
Slope protection, he added, was under the agency’s regular budget. At the same time, Ortiz said, the landslide was an expected effect of the road work.||| |||buy finasteride online with |||
Ortiz said DPWH had applied for a certification of exemption from the DENR (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) for the road project.
What is this? If the DPWH cares, why apply for a certificate of exemption? If the DENR cares, why give a certificate of exemption when DENR’s own Mines and Geo-Sciences Bureau had declared the slopes highly susceptible to landslides ages ago (2009)?
If the City cares, why didn’t they stress the importance of slope protection to DPWH in line with their having declared Shrine Hills as an Urban Ecological Enhancement Subzone to be protected at all times and they only acted when the slides started moving?||| |||buy ciprodex online with |||