Readers' Views: No to BNPP revival

The Interfaith Justice and Peace Network (IFJPNet) is in solidarity with all sectors strongly opposing the revival of Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). The recent move in the Congress to raise from the dead the said anomalous project is an act of ignorance and total denial to the scientific findings that the said power plant is indeed dangerous and risky to the lives of the people and environment in Bataan.

We have not forgotten that the said project of former dictator President Ferdinand Marcos was built with million dollars corruption that went only to the pocket of Marcos and his cronies.

Again, reviving the said project is tantamount to an act of deception to the Filipino people who are directly paying the million dollars of loans and interest payments through taxes. Many Filipinos are continually suffering due to corruption of the past administrations particularly the huge corruptions under the administration of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Given the clear pattern of corruptions under this administration, the plan to revive the BNPP is not far to become another source of enormous corruption and additional burden to the Filipino people specially the poor who are incessantly deprived of the basic social services. This is another move of stupidity to revivify the headstone of corruption and put the people and environment in an unacceptable danger and destruction.

No to Bataan Nuclear Power Plant revival!