Province of Rizal vs. Executive Secretary
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flashfloods that not only damage to property but also cause loss of
lives.Water is life, and must be saved at all costs. In Collado v.
Court of Appeals, we had occasion to reaffirm our previous
discussion in Sta. Rosa Realty Development Corporation v. Court
of Appeals, on the primordial importance of watershed areas,
thus: The most important product of a watershed is water, which
is one of the most important human necessities. The protection of
watersheds ensures an adequate supply of water for future
generations and the control of flashfloods that not only damage
property but also cause loss of lives. Protection of watersheds is
an intergenerational responsibility that needs to be answered
now.
Same Same Same Department of Environment and Natural
Resources (DENR) was mandated to be the primary government
agency responsible for the conservation, management, development
and proper use of the countrys environment and natural resources
specifically forest and grazing lands, mineral resources including
those in reservation and watershed areas and lands of the public
domain.The state is, and always has been, zealous in
preserving as much of our natural and national heritage as it can,
enshrining as it did the obligation to preserve and protect the
same within the text of our fundamental law. It was with this
objective in mind that the respondent DENR was mandated by
then President Corazon C. Aquino, under Section 4 of Executive
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CHICONAZARIO, J.:
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Thomas Jefferson.
Resolution No. 9579 of the Office of the Sangguniang Bayan,
CA Rollo, p. 53.
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CA Rollo, p. 50.
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CA Rollo, p. 51.
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CA Rollo, p. 52.
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CA Rollo, p. 55.
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Subject: Pertinent Activities Related to the San Mateo Landfill and the
Proposed Integrated Social Forestry Project at Pintong Bocaue, San Mateo, Rizal
CA Rollo, pp. 5660.
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CA Rollo, p. 61.
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Watershed
reservation
and
placed
under
the
administration of MMDA, since the site was deemed to
form part of the land resource reserve then commonly
referred to as buffer zone.
5. Contrary to the impression that you had been given,
relocating the site at this point and time would not be
easy, if not impracticable, because aside from the
investments that had been made in locating the present
site, further investments have been incurred in:
5.1. The conduct of the technical studies for the development
being implemented. Through a grantinaid from the
World Bank, US$600,000 was initially spent for the
conduct of the necessary studies on the area and the
design of the landfill. This was augmented by, at least,
another P1.5 million from the government for the studies
to be completed, or a total cost at the time (1990) of
approximately P20 million.
5.2. Additionally, the government has spent approximately
P33 million in improving on the roadway to make the site
accessible from the main road/highway.
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CA Rollo, p. 411.
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Rollo, p. 265.
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Rollo, p. 344.
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Rollo, p. 355.
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Rollo, p. 358.
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Rollo, p. 368.
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388 SCRA 691, citing Gonzales v. Chavez, G.R. No. 97351, 04 February
1992, 205 SCRA 816, 830 and Consolidated Bank and Trust Corporation
v. Court of Appeals, G.R. No. 78771, 23 January 1991, 193 SCRA 158, 176.
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CA Rollo, p. 50.
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December 2000, 347 SCRA 128,171172, citing 2 Aruego, The Framing of the
Philippine Constitution, pp. 600601.
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Oposa v. Factoran, G.R. No. 101083, 30 July 1993, 224 SCRA 792,
806807.
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Rollo, p. 344.
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species,
to
consult
with
the
local
government
units,
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providing
for
the
establishment,
maintenance,
protection, and conservation of communal forests and
watersheds, tree parks, greenbelts, mangroves, and other
similar forest development projects . . . . and, subject to
existing laws, establishing and providing for the maintenance,
repair and operation of an efficient waterworks system to supply
water for the inhabitants and purifying the source of the
water supply regulating the construction, maintenance, repair
and use of hydrants, pumps, cisterns and reservoirs protecting
the purity and quantity of the water supply of the
municipality and, for this purpose, extending the coverage
of appropriate ordinances over all territory within the
drainage area of said water supply and within one
hundred (100) meters of the reservoir, conduit, canal,
aqueduct, pumping station, or watershed used in
connection with the water service and regulating the
consumption, use or wastage of water. [Section 447 (5)(i) & (vii)]
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CA Rollo, p. 407.
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Phil. 289 (1950) Republic v. Go Bon Lee, 111 Phil. 805 1 SCRA 1166
(1961) Taada v. Cuenco, 103 Phil. 1051 (1957).
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Section 40, paragraphs (a) and (e), Rep. Act No. 9003.
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