The petition has so far gathered more than 200,000 signatures.
It is addressed to President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Congress and Secretary Toni Yulo-Loyzaga of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources .
“The Kaliwa Dam Project violates legal processes and the Philippine Constitution, is destructive to the environment, and is against the country’s national interest,” it reads. Stop Kaliwa Dam Network also made emphasis the dam’s ramifications in the Sierra Madre, the people of Luzon and the indigenous groups who lived at the site where the dam will be built.Affect the ancestral forests where 5,000 Dumagat-Remontados reside in the Sierra MadreSubmerge at least six sacred sites and 291 hectares of forestss the longest mountain range in the Philippines that covers the northeast coast of Luzon.
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