Davao Oriental 2nd district Rep. Cheeno Almario (left), Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta (PBA) Party-list Rep. Migs Nograles (Facebook) A measure that seeks to safeguard the integrity of Philippine elections by criminalizing troll farms and election...
Listed firm Citicore Renewable Energy Corporation (CREC) is stepping up in a big way on adding renewable energy (RE) capacity to the country’s power supply, with 1.3 gigawatts (1,300 megawatts) ramp up on its solar operating facilities by yearend until early part of 2025. In a briefing with the...
While many other power plants fail to deliver during this year’s El Nino-stricken weather temperatures, solar plants have been thriving as ‘powerhouse solution’ in shielding consumers from the wrath of unwanted blackouts or power service interruptions. Rotational brownouts would typically...
Equity acquisition in existing renewable energy (RE) projects had driven up the net income of Yuchengco-led PetroEnergy Resources Corporation (PERC) by 9.0% last year to P944 million from P863 million in 2022. The corresponding portfolio boost, according to the company, likewise shored up its...
CEBU CITY – A Tacloban City court has dismissed two petitions seeking to invalidate the search warrant it issued against the site where a controversial chicken breeder farm is located. DEPARTMENT of Environment and Natural Resources-Eastern Visayas personnel collect water and soil samples from a...
CEBU CITY – A lawyer has appealed to the public to help “spread the truth in Palompon” amid the protracted legal battle over the alleged illegal dumping of chicken and other solid wastes at the Palompon Protected Watershed Forest Reserve in Palompon, Leyte. AN excavation is done in an area in...
TACLOBAN CITY – The Department of Environment and Natural Resources-8 (Western Visayas) and the Leyte Police Provincial Office implemented a search warrant issued by the executive judge of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) here on Friday, January 19, to excavate 30 sites where hazardous wastes...
DAVAO CITY – Prominent businessman Philip “Sonny” Dizon, owner of the Crocodile Park here and food producer Dizon Farms, passed away on Sunday morning, January 7, in a road crash on the Bansalan-Balutakay Road in Davao del Sur. DIZON ( Councilor Danilo C. Dayanghirang FB) The Bansalan Police...
BAYBAY CITY – Former Palompon, Leyte Mayor Myra Georgina Arevalo and her former municipal planning and development officer have been charged for alleged illegal issuance of a cease-and-desist order against DBSN Farms Agriventures Corp. The case filed by DBSN on Thursday, December 28, before...
TACLOBAN CITY – Mayor Ramon Oñate of Palompon, Leyte has secured a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) against the attempt of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources to excavate at DBSN Farms Agriventure Corp. that he owns in Barangay San Joaquin, Palompon. In an order issued by...
Life at sea is undeniably exciting, but here’s a story about a particular seafarer who found life on land a lot more fulfilling. Meet Melvin Awid, a 29-year-old vanilla farmer in Sarangani. But before he was a farmer, Awid was a seafarer with a very bright future. In 2020, Awid was a Third Officer...
Terra Grande Farms is a ten-hectare regenerative Anglo-Nubian goat farm in San Carlos, Negros Occidental. They believe that they are the first and only regenerative goat farm in the Philippines, and they achieved this by practicing a wide variety of sustainable and regenerative farm methods. The...
