Philippine Senate Leader to Oppose Economic Deal With Japan That Includes Toxic Waste Trade
by Windsor Genova (AHN Writer), AHN
17 September 2007 (Manila, Philippines) –
The president of the Philippine Senate has threatened to oppose a proposed economic agreement with Japan if it allows the dumping of toxic and hazardous waste to the Philippines.
In a press briefing at a hotel in Davao City in southern Philippines, Senate President Manuel B. Villar Jr. made the threat if the executive department fails to assure him 100 percent that the Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA) will not include the export to the Philippines from Japan of toxic and hazardous waste materials.
The Manila Times reported that one provision of the bilateral trade pact is the export to the Philippines of ash and residues containing arsenic, mercury, thallium or their mixture; pharmaceutical waste and sewage sludge; clinical waste; ash and residues from the incineration of municipal waste; waste and scraps of such chemical substances as lead, copper, zinc, tin, molybdenum, tantalum, bismuth, cadmium, titanium, antimony, manganese, beryllium and others.
The senate president had warned the executive department that the JPEPA provision on toxic waste trade could not be amended.
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