Taliptip folk hang on to their homes as work on Bulacan airport said to continueMANILA, Philippines — Residents of a fishing community in Bulacan accused a major conglomerate of fast tracking the move to uproot them from their homes—the site of a planned airport project—in the middle of coronavirus pandemic. We told them that we want relocation and livelihoods)Some residents of Taliptip have already demolished their own homes in exchange for P250,000 in compensation. No application for reclamation for the airport project had been filed with the Philippine Reclamation Authority as of September 2019. Estenzo-Ramos also said that the Environmental Management Bureau office in Central Luzon refused to issue a copy of environmental impact assessment to affected residents and to Oceana Philippines. No EIS related to the airport project has been published on the website of the Environmental Management Bureau's Environmental Impact Assessment and Management Division.

Source: Philippine Star July 23, 2020 13:52 UTC