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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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 …
Two foreign companies are now doing exploration works in southern Cebu to find oil that may help address the country’s quest for oil security, Department of Energy (DOE) regional director Antonio Labios said. Australian firm Gas2Grid Ltd.…
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