Loakan residents seek city dads’ action vs. Globe cell site 05-10-02

	NORDIS WEEKLY October 2, 2005
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Loakan residents seek city dads’ action vs. Globe cell site
BAGUIO CITY (Sept. 27) — Residents of Loakan barangay here, including some of their officials, on Monday sought the city’s intervention as they reiterated their petition against the construction of a cell site tower the area, which they have submitted to the city council in December last year. They said they continue to oppose the construction, installation, operation and maintenance of the Globe Telecoms, Inc (Globe) antenna. After an ocular inspection, the city council, through Councilor Rocky Thomas A. Balisong, chairperson of the council’s committee on Public Utilities, Transportation and Traffic Legislation, today requested the AVECS Corporation, the builder of the Globe tower, to stop the construction while disputes have not yet been resolved. Balisong’s committee also invited the contractor to clarify issues involved in the cell site facility. Before the Loakan residents’ complain during the Citizen’s Forum on Sept. 26, Balisong said, there was no information that the project would push through since the residents earlier filed a petition against it. Proximity to residential area In its initial construction, the contested tower is presently inside the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), very near the residential areas in the said barangay. “It is actually in front of the residence of punong barangay Basilio B. Binayan,” barangay Kagawad Jesusa Viscaya told the city council She recounted that she was not in the Barangay Council meeting last year when the local government unit of Loakan passed an alleged resolution endorsing the construction of the Globe cell site within the PEZA compound. A desktop radiation safety evaluation done by the Bureau of Health Devices and Technology of the Department of Health on the proposed mobile telephone base station revealed that no person should be allowed to remain directly in front of the 38 meters high microwave antenna at a distance of .27 for occupational personnel to .61 meters for the public. For the cellular antenna, which would rise at 42 meters, the disallowed distance was placed at 1.72 to 3.85 meters for occupational personnel and the public, respectively. Falsified Resolution On October 28, 2004, a barangay resolution granted a clearance to Globe to construct, install, operate and maintain a radio base station within its vicinity. Eight Loakan council members and the barangay captain signed the “resolution” a photocopy of which was given to NORDIS. Viscaya’s name was printed in the “resolution” but no signature appeared. The resolution, however, appeared to be ready-made in a common format where the name of the barangay and the date and time of the meeting were left blank and the Barangay officials apparently filled in the necessary data, according to Viscaya. Viscaya also said there was no barangay consultation as stated in the contested resolution, which stated that Globe officials and the council conducted a community forum on October 28, same day as the council allegedly endorsed the project. In December, residents forwarded the petition to the council. Said petition also said that Barangay Resolution No. 51 was passed without proper consultation conducted, otherwise, they could have objected to the construction by Globe. Globe appeared to have dealt with technicalities before it met with the barangay council. Earlier on October 18, PEZA OIC Zone Administrator Tereso C. Panga informed Globe that Globe’s offer to lease some 256 square meters of space within the PEZA property has been approved at a graduated rate per square meter ranging from P38.05 for 2004-2006 to P44.56 in 2014, or an average of P10,000 monthly rental. In an undated document, Engr. Rolyndon A. Julian, site acquisition and permitting contractor of Metro Convergence, Inc. for Globe promised to donate communications equipment as requested by the Loakan council on the condition that said gadget would be given “upon commencement of construction of the cell site. Two other council members, Emmanuel Carantes and Cecilia Torres, who appeared with Viscaya and the residents, claimed they have retracted their support to the construction of the tower. # Lyn V. Ramo for NORDIS
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	NORDIS WEEKLY October 2, 2005
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Loakan residents seek city dads’ action vs. Globe cell site
BAGUIO CITY (Sept. 27) — Residents of Loakan barangay here, including some of their officials, on Monday sought the city’s intervention as they reiterated their petition against the construction of a cell site tower the area, which they have submitted to the city council in December last year. They said they continue to oppose the construction, installation, operation and maintenance of the Globe Telecoms, Inc (Globe) antenna. After an ocular inspection, the city council, through Councilor Rocky Thomas A. Balisong, chairperson of the council’s committee on Public Utilities, Transportation and Traffic Legislation, today requested the AVECS Corporation, the builder of the Globe tower, to stop the construction while disputes have not yet been resolved. Balisong’s committee also invited the contractor to clarify issues involved in the cell site facility. Before the Loakan residents’ complain during the Citizen’s Forum on Sept. 26, Balisong said, there was no information that the project would push through since the residents earlier filed a petition against it. Proximity to residential area In its initial construction, the contested tower is presently inside the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA), very near the residential areas in the said barangay. “It is actually in front of the residence of punong barangay Basilio B. Binayan,” barangay Kagawad Jesusa Viscaya told the city council She recounted that she was not in the Barangay Council meeting last year when the local government unit of Loakan passed an alleged resolution endorsing the construction of the Globe cell site within the PEZA compound. A desktop radiation safety evaluation done by the Bureau of Health Devices and Technology of the Department of Health on the proposed mobile telephone base station revealed that no person should be allowed to remain directly in front of the 38 meters high microwave antenna at a distance of .27 for occupational personnel to .61 meters for the public. For the cellular antenna, which would rise at 42 meters, the disallowed distance was placed at 1.72 to 3.85 meters for occupational personnel and the public, respectively. Falsified Resolution On October 28, 2004, a barangay resolution granted a clearance to Globe to construct, install, operate and maintain a radio base station within its vicinity. Eight Loakan council members and the barangay captain signed the “resolution” a photocopy of which was given to NORDIS. Viscaya’s name was printed in the “resolution” but no signature appeared. The resolution, however, appeared to be ready-made in a common format where the name of the barangay and the date and time of the meeting were left blank and the Barangay officials apparently filled in the necessary data, according to Viscaya. Viscaya also said there was no barangay consultation as stated in the contested resolution, which stated that Globe officials and the council conducted a community forum on October 28, same day as the council allegedly endorsed the project. In December, residents forwarded the petition to the council. Said petition also said that Barangay Resolution No. 51 was passed without proper consultation conducted, otherwise, they could have objected to the construction by Globe. Globe appeared to have dealt with technicalities before it met with the barangay council. Earlier on October 18, PEZA OIC Zone Administrator Tereso C. Panga informed Globe that Globe’s offer to lease some 256 square meters of space within the PEZA property has been approved at a graduated rate per square meter ranging from P38.05 for 2004-2006 to P44.56 in 2014, or an average of P10,000 monthly rental. In an undated document, Engr. Rolyndon A. Julian, site acquisition and permitting contractor of Metro Convergence, Inc. for Globe promised to donate communications equipment as requested by the Loakan council on the condition that said gadget would be given “upon commencement of construction of the cell site. Two other council members, Emmanuel Carantes and Cecilia Torres, who appeared with Viscaya and the residents, claimed they have retracted their support to the construction of the tower. # Lyn V. Ramo for NORDIS
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