Rufus backs green agenda

By JOE DEL PUERTO FELICILDA
Staff Member
REPRESENTATIVE Rufus B. Rodriguez (2nd District, Cagayan de Oro) has vowed to file more ‘green bills’ to keep Cagayan de Oro and Misamis Oriental free from any form of environmental destruction.
Expressing all out support to the Green Agenda of the Legal Rights Center, the Archdiocese of Cagayan de Oro and the Xavier University Social Action Committee, Rodriguez disclosed the approval of his bill that declares Cagayan de Oro a completely mining-free and logging-free city.
“I fully support these green agenda because I believe that every government official should lead in protecting the environment and in asking the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to check whatever acts against our environment,” Rodriguez said.
He also revealed to have filed the Protected Landscape Bill that places Cagayan de Oro, Bonunawan and Monigue Rivers within a historical and protected area.
The bill disallows any activity that destroys the environmental, historical and economic conditions of the area, Rodriguez said.
Meantime, Rodriguez pushed anew his opposition to the proposed bio-ethanol plant in barangays Mambuaya and Bayanga by asking the Alcantara and Sons, Incorporated (Alsons) to settle the controversial project in the Phividec Industrial Area.
“I am not at all against the production and use of bio-fuel, but it should never be in Mambuaya and Bayanga so as not to spoil and destroy our Monigue and Cagayan Rivers,” Rodriguez pointed out.