DENR orders close watch on SRP

Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/19/2016

Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Undersecretary Isabelo Montejo disclosed that a team from the Environmental Management Bureau in Central Visayas (EMB-7) has been sent to the South Road Properties (SRP) to check on the garbage…

‘THIS IS NOT A DUMPSITE’

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo, Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag, Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/18/2016

It will only be temporary. One month at most. By then, however, at least 5,000 tons of garbage will be sitting in open dumpsites, the size of a small subdivision, at the South Road Properties (SRP). The…

City to dump garbage at SRP

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/16/2016

City to comply with CA ruling, SRP lot to be used as temporary waste transfer station Starting today (Saturday), the Cebu City government will start dumping the city’s collected garbage at the South Road Properties (SRP), which…

CA to Cebu City: Stop dumping garbage at Inayawan landfill

Jose Santino S. Bunachita, Michelle Joy L. Padayhag 12/16/2016

A FRESHER air to breathe and cleaner waters to drink. A victory for Cebuanos. These are among the things to be expected with the Court of Appeals (CA) granting the first-ever Writ of Kalikasan in Cebu and…

DOT exec: Oslob may be out of Miss U show

Victor Anthony V. Silva 12/13/2016

Whale shark watching in Oslob town in southern Cebu may not be included in the final show of the Miss Universe pageant, which will involve 90 candidates. Tourism Undersecretary Katherine de Castro said that they are considering…

Miracles and peace with earth

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 12/11/2016

On a long-haul flight, one’s choices of living the moment range from a combination of sleeping, eating, reading, meditating, thinking, tinkering with a computer or iPod and, with it, of course, a menu of not just one…

Alcover not giving up on ordinance banning plastic bags in Cebu City

John Carlo Villaruel 12/05/2016

After not getting the approval from the city council regarding the total ban of plastic bags, Cebu City councilor Pastor Alcover Jr. is now thinking of other options as he looks to collect ordinances from other Local…

Protecting Environmental Rights and their Defenders

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 12/04/2016

Miracles are provided by Nature to all of us but we haughtily take them for granted, as if our home planet owes us these services. How can we possibly exist without the air, water, land, trees, the…

Dino hopes court to allow housing in Bantayan Island

Victor Anthony V. Silva 11/29/2016

PRESIDENTIAL Assistant for the Visayas Michael Dino said he was confident the court will lift the injunction on the issuance of Environmental Compliance Certificates (ECC) for construction projects on Bantayan Island, northern Cebu. Dino anchored his optimism…

Climate change opponents

11/15/2016

November is said to be the Environmental Awareness Month, and it is no small coincidence that it was also three years ago on this month — Nov. 8 to be exact — when Super Typhoon Yolanda gave…

Environmental awareness and action

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 11/13/2016

Conscious of the fact that education is key to awareness and action to protect our dying Earth and the guaranteed rights of our people to a “balanced and healthful ecology”, a law, Republic Act No. 9512, known…

Lapu has new garbage hauler

Norman V. Mendoza 11/02/2016

LAPU-LAPU City has a new hauler to deliver their garbage to the Consolacion private landfill facility after it dropped its previous hauler due to its inefficient collection efforts. In yesterday’s press conference, Lapu-Lapu City Mayor Paz Radaza…

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