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Logging caused North Cotabato, Maguindanao floods, says gov.
(From Philippine Daily Inquirer)
ALAMADA, North Cotabato-Logging was the immediate suspect in the flooding in this town and Libungan on Monday and the province's governor said he would form an investigating team to find out who should be put to justice for the destruction.
At least nine persons died in the floods and hundreds of millions of pesos worth of infrastructure and crops were destroyed.
Gov. Emmanuel Pi[currency]ol said one of the angles the team would look into is the massive cutting of trees in the province's borders with Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur.
He said the logging activities in these borders were believed to be behind the flood.
"I believe that this illegal cutting of trees, which is very rampant inside North Cotabato's territory, resulted in the calamity," Pi[currency]ol said.
But while pointing his fingers at Maguindanao businessman Umbal Alamada of being behind the logging activities, Pi[currency]ol also blamed the Department of Environment and ...
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