Landfill barricades lifted

CAPAS, Tarlac — Anti-landfill demonstrators lifted late last Saturday their barricades in an upland resettlement site in neighboring Bamban town and at the historic Capas Death March Shrine.

Their move put an end to four days of protest against plans of the Clark Development Corp. (CDC) to build a multimillion-dollar, 100-hectare sanitary landfill in Barangay Kalangitan here.

But the outrage over the landfill project still continues as protesters keep a tight watch on heavy equipment now idly parked in Kalangitan.

Capas Mayor Rey Catacutan said anti-landfill forces decided to lift the human barricades after CDC officials pleaded that rally leaders sit down with them on Tuesday for a dialogue on the controversial project.

Anti-landfill rallyists, led by Catholic priests and nuns and the Bamban Task Force Anti-Landfill, set up human barricades at the Dapdap resettlement site in Bamban last Tuesday night after receiving word that the CDC was sending heavy equipment to Kalangitan to begin work on the landfill. — Benjie Villa