BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Bulacan

Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps show [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Pampanga

Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps show [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Tarlac

Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant. But the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. These series of maps show [...]

BNPP hypothetical 50-mile (80.5 km) radius evacuation zone: Zambales

While Japanese authorities declared a 20-km evacuation zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011, a warning to U.S. citizens living in Japan to evacuate to safer areas if they were living within 50 miles (80.5 km) of the radioactive plant. The following series of maps [...]

Chemical farming: inorganic or non-organic?

Why chemical farming should be called “non-organic” instead of “inorganic” by Roberto Verzola In farming, the use of agrochemicals which are harmful to human health, soil life, and the environment is often carelessly called inorganic farming. Inorganic farming is a confusing term that the agrochemical industry uses to obfuscate issues against chemical farming. The more [...]

The Philippines: An Ecological Perspective

THE PHILIPPINES: AN ECOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE   I. The Birth of Luzviminda by Roberto Verzola (rverzola@gn.apc.org), Convenor, Philippine Greens Fifty million years ago, the archipelago of more than 7,000 islands that now calls itself the Philippines did not exist yet.  Instead, there was Mindoro and Palawan, just off the Asian landmass and south of what [...]

An 80-km BNPP evacuation radius will include all of Bataan and Pampanga, most of Zambales, Bulacan, Metro Manila and Cavite, and parts of Tarlac and Batangas

PRESS STATEMENT (March 18, 2011) An 80-km BNPP evacuation radius includes all of Bataan and Pampanga, most of Zambales, Bulacan, M.Manila and Cavite, and parts of Tarlac and Batangas The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued on March 16, 2011 the following warning to U.S. citizens in Japan: “Under the guidelines for public safety that [...]