The Apo Agua Infrastractura Inc. (AAII) has asked the help of the Sangguniang Panlungsod (city council) for the approval of its land conversion permit to establish a water treatment facility adjacent to the Tamugan River in Barangay Gumalang, Baguio District … Continue reading Water firm seeks Davao City council help on land conversion approval
NEVER mind that the mining industry is raising the specter of lost investments and revenues and massive unemployment if the government continues to look at the sector as something that the country can do without. President Rodrigo Duterte has to … Continue reading THE DURIAN BEAT: Duterte and killing the mining industry
BY ROGER M. BALANZA President Rodrigo Duterte is racing against time to meet a deadline for the approval of the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL). Congress itself is working overtime in putting the finishing touches and the eventual approval of the … Continue reading THE DURIAN BEAT: Duterte and the race to peace in Mindanao
CABINET COLLIDES WITH PRESIDENT OVER PARIS PACT Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has made a turn-around from his opposition to ratify a global pact aimed at taming climate change. After earlier describing the pact as “crazy,” President Duterte on Monday, November … Continue reading DUTERTE PIVOTS: PHILIPPINES TO RATIFY CLIMATE CHANGE GLOBAL PACT
By Lilybeth G. Ison In view of President Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to prioritize poor fishermen in the use of the Laguna de Bay or Laguna Lake, Environment and Natural Resources Sec. Regina Lopez on Wednesday said she will issue a … Continue reading DENR: No more fish pens in Laguna Lake
SEMIRARA MINING HIT Antique Governor Rhodora J. Cadiao has echoed to Semirara Mining and Power Corporation (SMPC) what President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has said in his State of the Nation Address (SONA) Monday, July 25. for mining corporations to follow … Continue reading Antique governor backs Duterte vs. ‘destructive’ mining
Incoming DA chief eyes street dwellers for green house agri program By Lilian C. Mellejor The incoming Secretary of the Department of Agriculture (DA) will engage the street dwellers in highly-urbanized cities to do the green house agricultural farming to … Continue reading GREEN HOUSE FARMING IN PHILIPPINE URBAN CITIES
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