Deal inked to create monitoring team, funds for Inayawan landfill

Izobelle T. Pulgo 11/08/2016

THE Cebu City government has entered into a memorandum of agreement with the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB-7) for the establishment of a Multipartite Monitoring Team (MMT), an Environmental Guarantee Fund (EGF), and an Environmental Monitoring Fund (EMF)…

City Hall wants P124M budget for garbage disposal

Izobelle T. Pulgo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/31/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña sought a P102 million budget that will go to outsourcing heavy equipment and dump trucks for the city’s garbage collection and disposal next year. The mayor also asked for P22 million in…

LANDFILL HAS 13 VIOLATIONS

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 09/02/2016

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Environmental Management Bureau (EMB-7) has issued a notice of violation against the City of Cebu for its failure to comply with several standards set by the bureau in the…

Change is coming in the mining industry

Malou Guanzon Apalisok 06/06/2016

Change is coming” is the slogan that propelled Rodrigo “Digong” Duterte to the presidency, and who would ever thought the change also involves the way mainstream media covers or, based on Digong’s “boycott in reverse” of giant…

DENR greenlights BRT project

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 06/18/2015

The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) issued an environmental compliance certificate for Cebu City’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project which is expected to be operational by 2018. EMB-7 Regional Director Fernando Quililan said they expect Cebu City Hall…

Cordova town faces penalty for dumping limestone in private property

Melissa Q. Cabahug 05/29/2015

The Cordova municipal government will be penalized for conducting illegal reclamation for their proposed Cordova slaughter house project located in barangay Ibabao without securing the Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC). Engr. William Cuñado, regional director of the Environmental…

DENR issues stop order for Boljoon reclamation

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/19/2014

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources in Central Visayas (DENR-7) issued a cease and desist order (CDO) against an  8,000 square meter reclamation project in  Boljoon town because it has no Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC). The…

Let LGUs, not bizmen, run marine sanctuaries – Sitoy

Peter L. Romanillos 11/22/2014

Local government units (LGUs) should lead in the management and regulation of activities in marine sanctuaries,  not private business operators, said Cebu Provincial Board (PB) Member Arleigh Sitoy. Sitoy, who is at odds with his father, Cordova…

DENR cites violations in Cordova’s floating resto

Peter L. Romanillos 11/21/2014

  A floating restaurant operated by the Cordova municipal government in Gilutongan Island was cited for three violations of its environmental compliance certificate (ECC). The violations  were minor such as lack of a notice board showing its…

Reclamation work on Boljoon seashore ‘not authorized’

Marian Z. Codilla, Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/20/2014

Why is a “reclamation” project going on in the seashore of Boljoon town, and who authorized it? Why dumped into the seashore, boulders and limestone debris from Ili Rock, the mountain where a P42 million excavation is…

Poultry broke rules

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/05/2014

A poultry farm in Asturias town in Cebu suspected of being a source of fly infestation has to explain violations in its Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC). Inspectors from the regional office of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB-7)…

ECC compensates soldiers and policemen

PR 07/28/2014

The Employees’ Compensation Commission issued a board resolution providing additional protection to the soldiers and policemen under the Employees’ Compensation Program. Labor and Employment Secretary and Chair of the ECC, Rosalinda Dimaplis-Baldoz stated that soldiers and policemen…

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