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SP Asks EDC Explain Bago Power Plant Shutdown (-2-03-11, VDS)
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The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Negros Occidental yesterday passed a resolution requesting the Energy Development Corp. to explain the shutting down of its geothermal power plant in Bago City, Negros Occidental.
Board Member Emilio Yulo III, chairperson of the SP Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, said he has received unconfirmed reports that EDC is going to stop its project in Brgy. Mailum, Bago City, since the steam it has generated is not enough.
More Mining Explorations Set in Southern Negros (02-03-11)
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They keep coming to Negros Occidental in search of mineral deposits, despite the Sangguniang Panlalawigan’s opposition to their entry into the province.
The Philmet Exploration Corp. has joined the list of mining companies, which informed the Sangguniang Panlalawigan yesterday of its mining exploration activities at the boundary of Binalbagan, Negros Occidental, and La Libertad, Negros Oriental. It covers 2,693 hectares.
Veronica Iniguez Lee, presiden...
Read Full Post »Philex to Reopen Mines in Neg.Occ. (VDS, 01-24-11)
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Philex Mining Corp. will resume its gold mining operations in Sipalay City and Hinobaan town in southern Negros Occidental within the year, Manuel Pangilinan, its chairman of the board and chief executive officer, said Saturday.
The area is a big source of gold, and opening of the mine will benefit the community in the area, he said.
Philex’s Bulawan operations in southern Negros Occidental began in January 1996 and over its lifetime produced a total ...
Read Full Post »EDC "Rightsizing" from 49 MW to 5-10 MW is Insult to the Negrenses
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Recent pronouncements of Energy Development Corporation (EDC), formerly PNOC-EDC, that it will “right-size” its operations in the “buffer zone” of the Mt. Kanlaon NaturalPark (MKNP) and reduce further its adjusted target of 49 MW to a motley 5 – 10MW is an insult to the people of Negros.
Before the highly controversial, unconstitutional and illegal intrusion of the EDC into the“buffer zone” in 2008, EDC already claimed that it was pr...
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North Negros Geothermal Plant Decommissioned (???)
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Is Energy Development Corporation abandoning its North Negros Geothermal Project? Last week, the corporation announced that it decommissioned its power plant after completing studies on the plant's geothermal wells. Unfortunately, this announcement did not include information on plans to abandon the project.
EDC's July 4, 2011, disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, quotes Manuel Ogena, EDC Vice President for Technical Affairs, as saying that the consultants co...
Read Full Post »Illegal Trekking Case Against Protest Climbers Dismissed
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On June 6 and 7, 2008, 37 environmentalists led by Green Alert and members of the Coalition to Save Kanlaon entered the protected area of Mt. Kanlaon Natural Park without a trekking permit in order to protest the tree cutting and development permits given to Energy Development Corporation for its Geothermal Project in 169 hectares of primary forest with high biodiversity and the presence of threatened endemi...
Read Full Post »Joint Affidavit of Dr. Angel Alcala & Dr. Ely Alcala on the Kanlaon Geothermal Project
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REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES) D U M A G U E T E C I T Y) SS x——————————————x
DR. ANGEL C. ALCALA and DR. ELY ALCALA, both of legal age, married, and residents of Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, after being sworn in accordance with law, depose and state:
1. Affiant Angel Alcala was Secretary of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources from 1992 to 1995 and is presently the dir...
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