The government should provide economic subsidies, including long-term compensation, to around 3,000 fishers whose livelihoods have been badly affected by the ethanol spill in Bais City, Negros Oriental, progressive group Pambansang Lakas ng Kilusang Mamamalakaya ng Pilipinas (Pamalakaya) said....
DUMAGUETE CITY – The provincial government of Negros Oriental has suffered losses after an estimated 10,000 milkfish (bangus) fingerlings died from exposure to wastewater spillage in Bais City. Provincial Agriculture Office (PAO) chief Emmanuel Caduyac told the Philippine News Agency on Thursday...
BACOLOD CITY – An ethanol spill from the Universal Robina Corp. (URC) distillery plant in Bais City, Negros Oriental has affected 10 coastal barangays in the city and a portion of the neighboring town of Manjuyod. Bais City Mayor Luigi Marcel Goñi met representatives of URC on Wednesday, Oct....
The United Sugar Producers Federation (UNIFED) is opposing the proposed molasses importation of the Ethanol Producers Association of the Philippines’ (EPAP). In a statement, UNIFED President Manuel Lamata said this proposal by EPAP was already thumbed down by members of the Bioethanol...
Consumers can benefit from slight reduction in pump prices this week, with diesel prices getting trimmed by P0.30 per liter; and kerosene had been down by P0.40 per liter. 26574 There was also expectation of at least P0.20 to P0.25 per liter rollback in gasoline prices, but that was wiped out by...
Oil firms implemented smaller P0.65 per liter this week, short of P0.10 to P0.15 per liter compared to their earlier estimates of P0.75 to P0.85 per liter set off by the industry players, prompting he Department of Energy (DOE) to seek explanation from the oil companies. For diesel prices, that had...
