Two BMs withdraw signatures
TWO provincial board members have asked to have their signatures withdrawn from the controversial resolution inviting KEDO to possibly bring their nuclear plant assets here.
Board Members Alicia Pulido from the 1st district and Raul Sison, representing the councilors’ league had written to the board’s secretariat authorizing the withdrawal of their votes.
In a letter dated Feb. 16 to the provincial board, Pulido wrote, “This is to expressly instruct you to immediately remove and strike out my signature that was inadvertently placed in the Resolution of the Ad-Hoc Committee on the Kedo Nuclear Power Plant…”.
During the voting, Pulido abstained but she inadvertently signed the resolution during their closed door session last Feb 15, after, according to her, “several of my colleagues assured me that the aforementioned document was a mere Committee Report and that it did not in any way recommend approval of the Provincial Resolution”.
She expressed regret for simply relying on the “representations” of her colleagues, as she didn’t have her reading glasses at that time.
“As head of the Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, I am of the firm belief that an issue as sensitive as one involving nuclear power plant, wherein a distinct threat to lives and property is at stake vis-à-vis the need for dependable energy, it is incumbent upon us, as public servants, to approach said issue without undue haste,” Pulido said.
Meanwhile, Sison, president of the Philippine Councilors’ League (Pangasinan chapter), in a letter dated Feb. 17 asked that his signature be withdrawn or stricken out of the committee report “in view of my voting against its resolution”.
Sison was the only board member who expressed opposition to the resolution during the voting. He reasoned that the resolution has not gone through the process of public hearing nor consultation with the people of Pangasinan.
It was not made clear why his signature was in the approved resolution.–LM#
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