2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:22:35 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Former Clark Air Force Base, Philippines
 
US toxic waste victims get Panlilio help

Tonette Orejas
Philippine Daily Inquirer
December 31, 2007

CITY OF SAN FERNANDO -- Filipinos who claimed they were made ill by 
exposure to toxic wastes left by the United States military at the 
former Clark Air Base have found another ally in Pampanga Gov. Eddie 
Panlilio.

This happened as the People’s Task Force for Bases Cleanup (PTFBC) 
signed a memorandum of agreement with Panlilio for a support program for 
victims during the group’s general assembly at the Parish of the Lord’s 
Resurrection at the Madapdap resettlement site in Mabalacat town on Friday.

Nelia Carreon, PTFBC-Clark coordinator, said she was surprised when she 
realized that Panlilio was the same priest who frequented the evacuation 
center at the Clark Air Base Command (Cabcom) in 1992 when Mt. 
Pinatubo’s lahar swamped the northern villages of Mabalacat.

...

For the entire article, see
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view_article.php?article_id=109529

-- 


Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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