TAGUM
CITY, Davao del Norte, June 28 (PIA)---- The National Grid Corporation of the
Philippines (NGCP) has entered into an understanding with the city
government of Tagum to adopt a one-hectare tree-plant area within
five years.
NGCP
Regional Corporate Communication and Public Affairs Officer Milfrance Capulong
Friday revealed that the tree-plant activity that NGCP conducted last Friday
was the kick-off of the five-year undertaking it committed to do as stipulated
in the affidavit of understanding it had signed earlier with the City
Environment and Natural Resources (CENRO) of Tagum City.
Citing
such activity as a catch-up activity of NGCP in observance of
the Arbor Day on June 25, Capulong said NGCP had
been into tree-planting which NGCP does nationwide, deploying
employees from all its
districts.
Participating
during last Friday’s tree-plant activity were some 100 employees from District
V of NGCP’s operations and maintenance and support group from corporate
communications office, finance, asset management and general services, among
others.
Aside
from tree-plant, NGCP also took part with the annual coastal
clean-up which it did last year in Bunawan, Davao City listed as a NGCP’s host
community just like Tagum City where transmission lines going to
areas in Davao del Norte, Compostela Valley and Davao Oriental were running
across, Capulong explained.
“We
are doing tree planting and coastal clean-up every
year. These are nationwide regular activities of NGCP,” she said.
Meanwhile,
Tagum City CENRO Forester Ronie Senangote revealed that CENRO provided the 300
seedlings of Mangrove and Tiwi planted during the NGCP tree-plant in Barangay
Busaon and that his office also assisted in clearing the tree-plant site.
However,
the tree-plant site maintenance and tree-growing supervision will be taken
cared of by NGCP which committed to deploy teams of line-men to do
the ground weeding around the planted trees.
“In
case of replanting needs, we can provide the seedlings,” he said while
explaining that the tree-planting activity formed part of the Reforestation and
Greening Program of the City Government of Tagum.
On the
other hand, NGCP District V OIC Division Head Cris Galareta in his message
during the brief program after the activity, emphasized the significance of
helping arrest the adverse effects of global warming
through planting trees.
He
raised alarming concern over the environment saying, “our nature has gone awry;
it kills a man”. “Magpapasalamat tayo sa CENRO Tagum that we are
given the chance to plant a tree,” he said
Galareta
made the participants aware that NGCP had committed to nurture the planted seedlings
for five years.
NGCP
District V Transmission Line Engineer Archie Villejo said the seven
line gangs of NGCP District V will be tasked to conduct a twice a month monitoring
as well as ground weeding of the tree-plant adopted area.
“They
will be sent on alternatively,” he said explaining that each gang is a team
composed of five to six members. (PIA XI/ Jeanevive Duron Abangan)
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