SKEPTICS of the JRMP are skeptical about the benefits of this project to the people of ILOILO in which this project was Intended to be built for the purpose of the province of ILOILO the opportunity to reap the benefits of this project once it is implemented.
1. It will provide the province an important a mega water storage for the province use to the water stored in this Dam to increase the amount of our irrigated lands to produce much needed rice crop to feed our ever growing population.
2. It will be an infrastructure of built by skillful human brain engineering using recent design data from recent climatic changes around the world in our environment caused by the effect of world global warming condition. In the past centuries, the earths populations is only fraction of what the earth has now. When I left Passi Iloilo for the U.S. the Philippines has 33million people today it has 103 million it has grown 3.12 times for the same size of land. What it means on this is that the same land has to produce three times the food it needs to feed the populace or perished in hunger and death. We as a people have to innovate and change the way we live to survive this life and it means we have to learn faster to catch up with the changes that is happening around us. This is why many Filipinos are now living an d working outside the Philippines to make room for those that are still to be born to live and conserve food resources. Calamities and disaster are the causes of global warming and population explosion. Believe me my friends, if you don’t act now, you will cause you own destructions and end your lives too soon. GOD has given you paradise to live, but you destroy it. WHAT can I SAY” IF you deserved it, you will get it SAYONARA. Till wed meedgt again!
That the dam is beneficial to the people of Iloilo, that is what the Philippine government says. But does it tally with the facts? The information in this post about the project’s negative side counters the government’s self-serving claims. There is population growth, that is true. People are migrating abroad, that is true. But will building the dam necessarily help solve such social problems? The Philippines is rich, with resources able to feed a population many times that of the present. But its people are poor because its wealth is concentrated in the hands of foreigners, corrupt officials, and big business. There are OFWs not because they want to help fellow Filipinos by “conserving food” but because there are no opportunities inside the country. Unfortunately, the construction of the Jalaur dam – by making the country more dependent on foreign capital and fostering corruption – will only worsen the already sordid state of the nation.
It is certainly not true that the Philippines as a nation will be able to feed its people from the products of its land. The agricultural lands are shrinking because more of these rice lands are converted to housing project. Now somebody tell me where do we get the rice lands that were lost to urban housing? Are we just dreaming of the notion that land area of the Philippines are expanding and growing? and where did we get that idea an d belief?
Some of us Filipinos are still living in the past! At school, we were taught and told that our country is rich in natural resources TRUE but that was in the past years 50 years ago. OPEN your eyes my fellow Filipinos that our country the PHILIPPINES has lost its forest. Its mountains were denuded without forest that help hold rain water when the rain come.
Now its the ERA of global warming and more extreme weather is coming and go. Some Filpinos blames foreign capital coming into the country with interest and exploitations! WRONG attitude. HELP is not free! When you go to the market and pick-up food you pay and its not free. Unless we consider ourselves useless people and relay on social welfare
to live if wed are that kind of people, I QUIT AND REST MY CASE no more argument.
Unfortunately, that is true. The Philippines cannot feed its own people under the present system because its agricultural sector remain backward and pre-industrial while its lands are monopolized by big hacienderos and foreign monopolies who use it for environmentally-destructive large-scale mining, who denude what little forest remains, and convert the rest for real estate speculation, golf courses, and other tourist attraction for foreigners. Those in government promote this kind of development model as opposed to a more long-term program of genuine land reform and national industrialization.
This fact, however, does not discount the fact that the volcanic origin of our mountains, our extensive rivers, and our tropical climate still makes Philippine lands extremely fertile suitable for various crops. Our rich fishing grounds can also sustain additional food production. If only our natural resources, especially the land, is used and developed for the benefit of Filipinos then yes, as Jake suggests, it can sustain a population that is larger than the present one. It is a matter of priorities.
Indeed, there is “global warming and more extreme weather.” But constructing a dam that aggravates floods during typhoons and heavy rains and is situated little more than 11 kilometers away from a major major fault line can only worsen the effects of such phenomenon. On top of that, it also dislocates indigenous peoples, worsens the country’s foreign debts and dependence on foreign capital, and intensifies human rights violations in the communities around the dam site.
Help is indeed not free, but it must not come with onerous and unjust strings attached. In the case of the Jalaur Dam, it is clear that only the international banks, multinational corporations in construction and energy, local big landlords, bourgeois comprador and corrupt bureaucrats stand to benefit from its cosntruction.
The people of Panay and the rest of the country are thus ready to oppose the real interests that the dam serves and shun the foreign-dominated economic model imposed by foreign banks and governments on our people.
We are ready to put forward a program of genuine agrarian reform and national industrialization that will ensure a truly independent and self-reliant economy that will benefit the people.
SKEPTICS of the JRMP are skeptical about the benefits of this project to the people of ILOILO in which this project was Intended to be built for the purpose of the province of ILOILO the opportunity to reap the benefits of this project once it is implemented.
1. It will provide the province an important a mega water storage for the province use to the water stored in this Dam to increase the amount of our irrigated lands to produce much needed rice crop to feed our ever growing population.
2. It will be an infrastructure of built by skillful human brain engineering using recent design data from recent climatic changes around the world in our environment caused by the effect of world global warming condition. In the past centuries, the earths populations is only fraction of what the earth has now. When I left Passi Iloilo for the U.S. the Philippines has 33million people today it has 103 million it has grown 3.12 times for the same size of land. What it means on this is that the same land has to produce three times the food it needs to feed the populace or perished in hunger and death. We as a people have to innovate and change the way we live to survive this life and it means we have to learn faster to catch up with the changes that is happening around us. This is why many Filipinos are now living an d working outside the Philippines to make room for those that are still to be born to live and conserve food resources. Calamities and disaster are the causes of global warming and population explosion. Believe me my friends, if you don’t act now, you will cause you own destructions and end your lives too soon. GOD has given you paradise to live, but you destroy it. WHAT can I SAY” IF you deserved it, you will get it SAYONARA. Till wed meedgt again!
That the dam is beneficial to the people of Iloilo, that is what the Philippine government says. But does it tally with the facts? The information in this post about the project’s negative side counters the government’s self-serving claims. There is population growth, that is true. People are migrating abroad, that is true. But will building the dam necessarily help solve such social problems? The Philippines is rich, with resources able to feed a population many times that of the present. But its people are poor because its wealth is concentrated in the hands of foreigners, corrupt officials, and big business. There are OFWs not because they want to help fellow Filipinos by “conserving food” but because there are no opportunities inside the country. Unfortunately, the construction of the Jalaur dam – by making the country more dependent on foreign capital and fostering corruption – will only worsen the already sordid state of the nation.
It is certainly not true that the Philippines as a nation will be able to feed its people from the products of its land. The agricultural lands are shrinking because more of these rice lands are converted to housing project. Now somebody tell me where do we get the rice lands that were lost to urban housing? Are we just dreaming of the notion that land area of the Philippines are expanding and growing? and where did we get that idea an d belief?
Some of us Filipinos are still living in the past! At school, we were taught and told that our country is rich in natural resources TRUE but that was in the past years 50 years ago. OPEN your eyes my fellow Filipinos that our country the PHILIPPINES has lost its forest. Its mountains were denuded without forest that help hold rain water when the rain come.
Now its the ERA of global warming and more extreme weather is coming and go. Some Filpinos blames foreign capital coming into the country with interest and exploitations! WRONG attitude. HELP is not free! When you go to the market and pick-up food you pay and its not free. Unless we consider ourselves useless people and relay on social welfare
to live if wed are that kind of people, I QUIT AND REST MY CASE no more argument.
Unfortunately, that is true. The Philippines cannot feed its own people under the present system because its agricultural sector remain backward and pre-industrial while its lands are monopolized by big hacienderos and foreign monopolies who use it for environmentally-destructive large-scale mining, who denude what little forest remains, and convert the rest for real estate speculation, golf courses, and other tourist attraction for foreigners. Those in government promote this kind of development model as opposed to a more long-term program of genuine land reform and national industrialization.
This fact, however, does not discount the fact that the volcanic origin of our mountains, our extensive rivers, and our tropical climate still makes Philippine lands extremely fertile suitable for various crops. Our rich fishing grounds can also sustain additional food production. If only our natural resources, especially the land, is used and developed for the benefit of Filipinos then yes, as Jake suggests, it can sustain a population that is larger than the present one. It is a matter of priorities.
Indeed, there is “global warming and more extreme weather.” But constructing a dam that aggravates floods during typhoons and heavy rains and is situated little more than 11 kilometers away from a major major fault line can only worsen the effects of such phenomenon. On top of that, it also dislocates indigenous peoples, worsens the country’s foreign debts and dependence on foreign capital, and intensifies human rights violations in the communities around the dam site.
Help is indeed not free, but it must not come with onerous and unjust strings attached. In the case of the Jalaur Dam, it is clear that only the international banks, multinational corporations in construction and energy, local big landlords, bourgeois comprador and corrupt bureaucrats stand to benefit from its cosntruction.
The people of Panay and the rest of the country are thus ready to oppose the real interests that the dam serves and shun the foreign-dominated economic model imposed by foreign banks and governments on our people.
We are ready to put forward a program of genuine agrarian reform and national industrialization that will ensure a truly independent and self-reliant economy that will benefit the people.