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MANILA — The Supreme Court has unanimously junked the writ of kalikasan petition against San Miguel Corporation’s (SMC) plan to build an airport in Bulakan, Bulacan as it was found lacking in form and substance, Chief Justice Diosdada Peralta said Tuesday afternoon.

The petition, filed by group Oceana Philippines, argued that the airport's construction would negatively impact marine biodiversity in the area, potentially affecting fisherfolk.

MANILA — The Supreme Court has unanimously junked the writ of kalikasan petition against San Miguel Corporation’s (SMC) plan to build an airport in Bulakan, Bulacan as it was found lacking in form and substance, Chief Justice Diosdada Peralta said Tuesday afternoon.

The petition, filed by group Oceana Philippines, argued that the airport's construction would negatively impact marine biodiversity in the area, potentially affecting fisherfolk.

The group also emphasized that the project violates Philippine environmental laws that must be followed before an airport project could commence.

The project also supposedly lacked an Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) for the airport’s construction. The only ECC that San Miguel Aerocity, the SMC subsidiary managing the project, has is the one used for land development, the group said.

"The grounds that we have enumerated are first of all, Philippine Environmental laws which should enforce and that should regulate the airport project were violated or circumvented," Oceana’s legal counsel, lawyer Gregorio Viterbo Jr., earlier explained.

Climate activist Xian Guevarra of the National Convenor of Youth Advocates for Climate Action Philippines, meanwhile, said the mangroves in fishponds would also be destroyed should the airport be built in the area.

Mangroves in fishponds are important to control flooding and possible storm surge.