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綠色和平抗議火力電廠 達陣 菲政府願讓步

2008年04月23日
摘譯自2008年4月19日ENS菲律賓,馬尼拉報導;游珮綺編譯;蔡麗伶審校

菲律賓環境部前,保安員試圖清除綠色和平組織傾倒的煤炭在與綠色和平組織(Greenpeace)代表們進行對話之後,馬尼拉環境部長阿提恩沙(Lito Atienza)同意就在怡朗市(Iloilo City)建立燃煤發電廠一事重新檢討是否發予環保安全證明。

綠色和平行動主義者17日在環境與自然資源部(Department of Environment and Natural Resources, DENR)門口傾倒了約半噸的煤炭,並且高舉『阿提恩沙,不要成為氣候罪人』的口號旗幟。這些參與活動的人們要求環境部拒絕在怡朗市建立燃煤發電廠的計畫,並表示燃煤發電廠將會汙染空氣,並且惡化全球暖化。

怡朗市是菲律賓怡朗省的主要城市,位於距馬尼拉約280哩處,其是該區域的中心以及西米沙鄢地區(Western Visayas region)的主要經濟軸心。

綠色和平也使用了木炭來做示範,用以代替實際的煤炭,他們認為如果發電廠使用木炭的話將比使用煤炭來得更安全。

因為煤炭在燃燒的時候,將會釋放出有毒氣體,如汞等,這對於位於順風處的社區將會對健康產生不良影響;另外還會產生所謂的二氧化碳,其是造成氣候變遷最主要的溫室氣體。

綠色和平氣候與能源運動領導人尹凡特(Jasper Inventor)表示,「助長氣候變遷就是一種違反人道的罪過,而阿提恩沙將能夠阻止這個罪過發生,只要他拒絕將環保安全證明發予怡朗市的燃煤發電廠。」

而馬尼拉市前任市長-阿提恩沙非常歡迎由尹凡特領軍的綠色和平環境與自然資源部代表團。阿提恩沙表示,就像綠色和平一樣,他一直致力於對抗氣候變遷的不良衝擊以及其他的環境威脅。

同時,阿提恩沙向綠色和平表示,「我與你們一樣,對於環境充滿關懷,但是我們必須要考慮到國家的其他利益,如果燃煤發電廠能夠提供能源,如果國家經濟以及人民對發電廠有需求,我就不能夠站在與你們完全相同的立場。但我向你們保證,我們擁有同樣的目標,那就是讓我們的環境更乾淨、更安全。」

對此,尹凡特也表示,「如果阿提恩沙如他所言的,對於解決環境問題嚴正以待,那麼他應該帶領並封鎖那些在怡朗市繼續建造及擴展燃煤發電廠的行動,以及其他國內發展煤炭的相關計畫。」

Greenpeace Dumps Coal at Philippines Environment Ministry, Wins Review
MANILA, Philippines, April 19, 2008 (ENS)

Philippines Environment Secretary Lito Atienza has agreed to review the environmental compliance certificate for a proposed coal plant in Iloilo City following a dialogue with Greenpeace representatives.

Greenpeace activists dumped half a ton of coal at the entrance of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, DENR, on Thursday and unfurled a banner with the message "Atienza, don be a climate criminal." The activists are demanding that the environment secretary reject plans to construct the Iloilo City coal-burning power plant, which they say would pollute the air and worsen global warming.

Iloilo is the capital city of the province of Iloilo in the Philippines. Located 280 miles from Manila, it is the regional center and the main economic hub of the Western Visayas region.

Instead of actual coal, Greenpeace used charcoal for their demonstration, which they say is safer than the coal used in power plants.

When burned, coal releases toxic gases such as mercury that have health impacts on downwind communities as well as carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas responsible for climate change.

"It is a crime against humanity to abet climate change, a crime that Secretary Atienza can stop by denying the issuance on an Environmental Compliance Certificate to the Iloilo Coal plant," said Jasper Inventor, Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner.

Atienza, a former mayor of Manila, welcomed to the DENR the Greenpeace delegation led by Inventor. Atienza said that, like Greenpeace, he is committed to fighting the adverse impacts of climate change and other threats to the environment.

"I am with you with regards to our environmental concerns, but we also have to consider the other interests of the nation. If the coal plant is going to be providing energy, and if there are demands for it by the national economy and by the people, I cannot take a position very similar to yours. But I assure you that we both have the same goal of keeping our environment clean and safe," Atienza told Greenpeace.

"If Mr. Atienza is, as he claims, serious about working toward solutions to the climate problem, then he should take the lead in blocking the construction and expansion of the Iloilo plant and any other similar coal project in the country," Inventor said.

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蔡麗伶(LiLing Barricman)

In my healing journey and learning to attain the breath awareness, I become aware of the reality that all the creatures of the world are breathing the same breath. Take action, here and now. From my physical being to the every corner of this out of balance's planet.