Deal #10571

Names of communities / indigenous peoples affected

Name of community

Mabalacateños

Name of indigenous people

Aeta Community

Comment on communities / indigenous peoples affected

a report in

Displacement of people

Yes

Number of people displaced staying on community land

10 000

Comment on displacement of people

The NCC is set to be inaugurated on Nov. 6, but tens of thousands of farmers and tribespeople living in the development area are still ignorant of the project’s extent even as bulldozers have leveled their crops, according to a research led by the University of Glasgow (UG) in the United Kingdom and the University of the Philippines. Displacement is imminent for the people who have tilled the land for decades, exposing them to the same disasters the NCC is being built to withstand.

Negative impacts for local communities

Environmental degradation, Socio-economic, Displacement

Comment on negative impacts for local communities

The NCC is set to be inaugurated on Nov. 6, but tens of thousands of farmers and tribespeople living in the development area are still ignorant of the project’s extent even as bulldozers have leveled their crops, according to a research led by the University of Glasgow (UG) in the United Kingdom and the University of the Philippines.

Promised or received compensation

Promised compensation (e.g. for damages or resettlements)

As part of a larger investment in the New Clark City (NCC), they were compensated for their removal from their lands.

Received compensation (e.g. for damages or resettlements)

One farmer stated "He was paid around P300,000 for the land, which will become part of the Capas-SCTEx highway to link the town to the metropolis. But the lost crops would have been equivalent to 150 cavans of rice, he said.

Promised benefits for local communities

Productive infrastructure (e.g. irrigation, tractors, machinery...), Other

Comment on promised benefits for local communities

Tugade said CDC continues to seek and provide dependable, sustainable and efficient power supply in Clark, adding that the solar project would help ensure adequate and cheap power supply to current and future locators within the Freeport Zone.

Materialized benefits for local communities

Productive infrastructure (e.g. irrigation, tractors, machinery...)

Comment on materialized benefits for local communities

sustainable and cheaper energy source