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BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
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Monday, March 13, 2017
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GINA Lopez is so passionate in her advocacy to preserve God-given gifts to His people, our natural resources. It is so heart-warming to see a woman from a wealthy family leading the people cleaning up dirty rivers, and many of these rivers and creeks are almost dead.
Gina is no ordinary woman for me. She speaks with a strong conviction, firm in her position, undaunted by the threats of selfish crocodiles which in most cases we call “honorables.” She is a modern David, female version, fighting the modern monsters, Goliaths – the unscrupulous mining operators, and their cohorts in Congress.
Lest we forget, thousands of lives and properties were lost because of the utter disregard to our environment. There have been disasters which we usually attribute to fortuitous events. Weighing the country’s gains from losses, the data are clear: 1.18 percent contribution of mining to total government resources, and only 1.7 percent of 42,000 barangays benefitted by mining offset the claim of gains we generated from mining in a span of 15 years.
The declaration that 1.2 million people will be affected with 23 mining closed is threatening. If mining activities without proper regulation by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources continue, the damage shall be permanent. Gina’s campaign is long-range while the oppositors’ myopic.
Perhaps, for the first time, I may say, the President, at last, is consistent here in supporting and believing in her appointee despite the opposition in the Commission on Appointments.
We see Gina in her fearless fight to protect our natural resources not only today but for generations to come.
Miss Gina Lopez, we are not blind to your noble cause. Go Gina, go! (delsocorrodaquila@gmail.com/PN)
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