Trade exec: Butane canisters filled with LPG will be seized

Marites Villamor Ilano and Marc Eric Cosep 11/14/2015

City Hall official says Cebu City interagency task force to continue drive Unless industry rules are changed, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) said there’s no chance of allowing the use or sale of butane canisters…

‘DON’T KILL BUSINESS’

Marc Eric Cosep 11/13/2015

LPG refillers lobby to have cans tested as ‘safe’ It’s cheap, handy and everywhere. While the refilling of LPG in butane canisters is banned as a fire hazard,  the widespread use and sale of these portable cooking…

Butane refilling stations ‘illegal’

Marc Eric Cosep 11/11/2015

CEBU City Councilor Dave Tumulak yesterday said butane refilling stations that have not complied with the safety standards set by the Department of Energy (DOE) are considered illegal. “We are assuming that all refilling stations have not…

DOE, City Hall to push info drive on butane cans

Nestle L. Semilla 11/08/2015

A one-week information campaign will be held in the barangays  before Cebu City takes drastic action and confiscates and arrests vendors and distributors of  refilled butane canisters, which are illegal. “We haven’t started yet. We are only…

CHEAP BUT RISKY

Marc Eric Cosep and Jose Santino S. Bunachita 11/07/2015

Why it’s dangerous to misuse butane canisters as LPG refills First, a fresh wave of public warnings. Next step, a “massive confiscation” of butane canisters that are refilled with cooking gas. This action was agreed yesterday in…

Ending the romance with dirty coal

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 07/27/2015

Why is the most vulnerable and poster country to climate impacts still gung-ho about coal? It defies reason and logic to build more climate-change causing coal power plants amid the indubitable fact that burning coal and other…

‘No brownouts’ during APEC in Cebu

Victor Anthony V. Silva 07/11/2015

Representatives from the energy sector assured that there will be no power interruptions when Cebu hosts the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit starting this  August. Engr. Antonio Labios, Department of Energy (DOE-7) regional director, said the…

DOE provides solar power in Bayawan, Negros Oriental

PR 06/30/2015

THE Department of Energy (DOE) installed 2,300 solar power facilities in households of indigenous peoples (IPs) in 15 remote barangays in Bayawan City, Negros Oriental. The off-grid hinterland barangays in Bayawan under the coverage of Negros Oriental…

Ample power assured for APEC meetings

Vanessa Claire Lucero 06/17/2015

Representatives of the Department of Energy (DOE) and Visayan Electric Co., Inc. (Veco) yesterday assured that Cebu will have adequate power supply during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings from August to October this year. Engineer Saul…

Visayas grid short of 200 MW; brownouts this week

Aileen Garcia-Yap 05/20/2014

The Visayas Grid, which includes Cebu, is short by 200 megawatts starting today until the end of the week, due to power plant shutdowns for emergency preventive maintenance. Consumers can expect a spell of rotation brownouts lasting…

Groups to stage rally on fossil fuel use and mining expansion in Cebu

Marian Z. Codilla 03/28/2014

Over 100 youth and ecology advocates from 50 groups will stage a rally to denounce the continued use of fossil fuels and mining expansion in Cebu. The rallyists who form part of the so-called Sulong Power Shift…

Cebu’s power supply stable

Ador Vincent S. Mayol 02/13/2014

Cebu has enough power supply and may no longer experience daily rotational brownouts. But energy officials urged people to conserve electricity to avoid power interruptions during summer. Department of Energy Regional Director Antonio Labios said they presently …

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