In a bid to boost the country’s fisheries output, the Philippine government is amenable to the private sector’s proposal to set up aquaculture sites within protected areas and dams across the country. This came two weeks after advocacy group Tugon Kabuhayan started pushing for the crafting of...
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) had just started its post-Typhoon Ulysses audit of all quarry and crushing plant operations in Rizal, but listed ATN Holdings Inc. (AHI) is already calling on the government to lift the suspension on the operations of its crushing plant in...
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Philippine government is still determined to award the country’s best mining companies. A Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) memorandum showed that the agency, tasked to regulate and develop the country’s mining sector, has already started the nomination...
GCash, the digital financial services firm of Globe Telecom, Inc., will fund a massive government-led re-forestation of Ipo Watershed, which is one of Metro Manila’s sources of freshwater. A statement showed that through donations generated from GCash, the Department of Environment and Natural...
The Department of Finance (DOF) wants to revive the mining industry to create jobs in rural as well as generate revenues for the government’s efforts in rebuilding the economy hit by the pandemic. At the virtual Philippine Business Conference and Expo, Finance Secretary Carlos G. Dominguez III...
Still receiving backlash for its decision to fill world-known Manila Bay with tons of white sand made from dolomite rock, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is still determined to participate in this year’s International Coastal Cleanup (ICC), a global campaign to protect...
