Keeping an eye on landfill plans

Editorial 11/26/2018

Last Tuesday’s disclosure of Cebu City Hall’s post Inayawan landfill rehabilitation plans offer some features proposed by the previous administration and some new which may draw opposition from environmental groups. Though Cebu City Environment Officer Ma. Nida…

Proposals to transform landfill presented

Morexette Marie B. Erram 11/20/2018

A RECREATIONAL park, a solar-panel farm, and a terminal for public utility vehicles (PUVs). These are just some of the proposals presented by a private consultancy firm before officers of the city government to transform the controversial…

Inayawan landfill permanently closed

09/07/2018

THE Inayawan Sanitary landfill in Cebu City is closed and can never be used again. The decision of the Supreme Court affirming the closure of the landfill issued last March was recorded and entered in the permanent…

Inayawan landfill closed for good

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 09/07/2018

The Supreme Court has made it final and executory its decision to order the permanent closure of the Inayawan landfill. A copy of the High Court’s decision issued on May 29 was received by the Cebu City…

Landfill concerns

Editorial 08/20/2018

While the opposition bloc in the Cebu City Council may be focusing their collective energies on stalling, if not stopping the implementation of the Kawit Island joint venture deal, another project worth mentioning is the landfill facility…

Council to deliberate on Kawit deal, landfill project

Morexette Marie B. Erram 08/14/2018

The Cebu City Council will deliberate on the validity of the two resolutions covering the P18-billion Kawit Island development joint venture and the proposed Binaliw landfill project in their Tuesday session. Vice Mayor Edgardo Labella, earlier said…

Landfill may destroy Aloguinsan tourism appeal

Jessa Mae O. Sotto 05/25/2018

ALOGUINSAN town may lose its appeal as an ecotourism destination if the landfill will continue to operate without mitigating measures, said Provincial Tourism Office (PTO) Head Joselito Costas. Aloguinsan, located about 70 kilometers southwest of Cebu City,…

Aloguinsan landfill is under CDO – EMB

Rosalie O. Abatayo 05/24/2018

THE Aloguinsan landfill used by Cebu City to dump its garbage has an existing cease-and-desist order from the Environmental Management Bureau in Central Visayas (EMB-7). According to EMB-7 Regional Director William Cuñado, the landfill should not be…

Team Rama councilors block Osmeña’s plan to develop Binaliw lot as landfill

Morexette Marie B. Erram 05/04/2018

The Team Rama councilors disapprove plans of Mayor Tomas Osmeña to develop a 1.7-hectare lot in Barangay Binaliw to be used as a landfill. Councilor Joel Garganera said the city government did not provide specific details on…

After landfill closure, what now?

STEPHEN CAPILLAS 05/03/2018

The Supreme Court ruling on the Inayawan landfill should spur Cebu City Hall to find ways to find a permanent alternative site where they can dump the city’s garbage and not have to pay hundreds of millions…

LANDFILL RULING

MAO BA? 05/02/2018

Netizens gave mixed reactions to a Supreme Court (SC) ruling that affirmed the petition for a Writ of Kalikasan on the Inayawan Landfill which ordered the Cebu City government to stop dumping garbage there. Former councilor Ma…

Cebu City Council disapproves Binaliw landfill site, MRF projects

Morexette Marie B. Erram 04/30/2018

The Cebu City Council has disapproved the use of the 1.7 hectare property in Barangay Binaliw, Cebu City as a material recovery facility (MRF) and landfill site. With nine councilors voting against it, ARN Builders’ application to…

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