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00:00 The reclamation project in Manila Bay was re-elected by the Senate.

00:09 Aside from the possibility of heavy flooding, especially in Metro Manila,

00:13 the Umanuy's commission plans to build condominiums in the area.

00:17 We have first news, Map Gonzalez.

00:19 Metro Manila might collapse if you don't stop that reclamation.

00:29 That's what Senator Cynthia Villar is saying in the Senate's hearing

00:32 about the large-scale reclamation project in Manila Bay.

00:36 She said she saw it in Indonesia,

00:38 that the Kabisera will be moved because Jakarta is already flooding.

00:41 Senator Coco Pimentel added,

00:43 why is the purpose of the reclamation to build condominiums?

00:47 In other countries, they reclaim to improve their ports.

00:52 That's what happened.

00:54 They reclaim to improve their ports.

00:56 I think it's the majority, like Singapore.

01:00 Here, we reclaim to destroy the ports.

01:04 That's my impression.

01:05 We reclaim, but not for the purpose of improving the port.

01:10 Because the purpose of this is to build a condo.

01:14 If they reclaim, and the others will reclaim,

01:18 there will be no more flooding.

01:21 Even Manila Harbor is also applying for an expansion of their port

01:28 for another 50 hectares, Madam Chair.

01:31 I understand the port.

01:34 They're expanding the port.

01:35 But when you are building,

01:37 you are reclaiming for what you call this condominium near the port.

01:44 That's a different story.

01:47 The people who are running the port are also complaining.

01:49 In South Harbor in Manila,

01:51 for example, four reclamation projects will be covered

01:54 for the ships to enter.

01:56 They are asking the Philippine Ports Authority

01:59 for a replacement channel.

02:01 We would, of course, want to have a similar access channel

02:06 which would be convenient for the shipping lines

02:08 and other stakeholders,

02:09 and would be a safe and efficient ingress of the vessels.

02:16 The shipping lines are still demanding

02:17 that the new sea lanes be further away

02:19 and that the cost of each ship is more expensive than US$3,000 to US$4,000.

02:24 Our request is that if we may,

02:26 maybe recommend that the quarantine station

02:32 and the pilot boarding station be a little bit nearer

02:35 so that in order to mitigate this cost,

02:39 considering that shipping costs have always been blamed

02:44 or logistics costs have always been blamed on the shipping industry,

02:48 and we would like to mitigate that.

02:51 Even the historic Manila Hotel will be affected by the reclamation.

02:55 Manila Hotel is just beside Manila Bay.

03:00 So even before this reclamation issue cropped up,

03:03 we were already thinking and anticipating what can be done

03:09 to save this national heritage,

03:13 the Manila Hotel, from flooding

03:15 and eventually sinking in the next decades.

03:20 Villar also scolded the Environmental Management Bureau of the DENR

03:25 because they allowed the reclamation

03:27 in Las Piñas-Parañaque Wetland Park,

03:29 which is a protected area.

03:31 If he continues the reclamation in the wet park,

03:33 it will cause heavy floods.

03:36 The Parañaque River, Las Piñas River, Sapote River,

03:40 Molino River, they are interconnected.

03:44 If you don't let one flood, not all can come out.

03:46 What will you do to us? Will you make us flood?

03:49 The prediction is 6 to 8 meters of flood.

03:53 6 meters is a three-story building.

03:55 The DENR has no problem with the reclamation.

03:58 This is the first news.

04:00 Mav Gonzalez for GMA Integrated News.

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