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PICOP HAS ONLY ITSELF TO BLAME FOR DENR's WITHDRAWAL OF ITS TLA
by Heherson T. Alvarez
Philippine Daily Inquirer
January 29, 2007
This is response to Domingo Tumambing's letter which criticized my withdrawal of Picop's logging concession in Mindanao, a decision upheld by the Supreme Court on Nov. 29, 2006.
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REPLACING POLLUTING DIESEL ENGINES
by Heherson T. Alvarez
The Philippine STAR
January 29, 2007
We would like to extend our admiration to Mr. Cito Beltran in his Philippine STAR column "CTalk" ("Losers who won big," Jan. 24, 2007) where he mentioned a program I initiated as DENR Secretary in 2002 to replace surplus diesel-fed engines of public transportation vehicles in the country to cut down harmful emissions.
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PICOP SPOKESMAN'S HALF-TRUTHS AND INACCURACIES IMPUGNS SC DECISION?
by Heherson T. Alvarez
The Philippine STAR
January 15, 2007
Mr. Domingo R. Tumambing, a senior forester and president of the Society of Filipino Foresters Inc., Caraga Council has been criticizing my decision as DENR Secretary that withdrew a logging concession of 75,545 hectares from PICOP in Mindanao, a decision which was affirmed by the Supreme Court in its Nov. 29, 2006 ruling against PICOP.
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A PRO-FOREST RULING
FIRST CRACK by Fel V. Maragay
Manila Standard TODAY
January 08, 2007
Last Nov. 29, the Supreme Court rendered a landmark decision that called attention to the need to protect the country's dwindling forests, and to preserve ecological balance over and above the business interests of a few.
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SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS ALVAREZ DECISION
ROSES & THORNS by Alejandro R. Roces
The Philippine STAR
January 04, 2007
Supreme Court (SC) issued a landmark ruling last November 29, upholding a decision of former Senator Heherson T. Alvarez when he was DENR Secretary in April 2002, that held in abeyance the operations of a logging concession in 75,545 hectares of forest land in Mindanao.
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PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER ON AGRARIAN REFORM HAILS SC RULING AGAINST PICOP
by Mia Gonzales
Business Mirror
January 02, 2007
Former environment secretary Heherson Alvarez on Sunday hailed the Supreme Court ruling against the Paper Industries Corporation of the Philippines (PICOP), calling it a "triumph of environmental defense againsts wealth-making big business insensitivity."
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ALVAREZ HAILS SC DECISION ON PICOP
The Manila Times
January 01, 2007
The recent Supreme Court (SC) decision against the country's largest logging concession is a triumph for environmentalists and a timely act that could prevent disasters in a big swathe of Mindanao, a former environment secretary said Sunday.
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