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                    [Title] => ‘Port Point operator should first comply with the rules’
                    [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO, La Union — The Poro Point Management Corp. (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), would not allow the Poro Point Industrial Corp. (PPIC) to resume operations at the disputed seaport here despite the issuance of a court injunction last Friday, an official said.

[DatePublished] => 2006-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097171 [AuthorName] => Jun Elias [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250945 [Title] => Usufruct contracts of Ipo settlers questioned [Summary] => Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Elisea Gozun has ordered an investigation into the usufruct contracts issued to some 47 individuals, allowing them to occupy areas in the watershed of Ipo Dam in Bulacan.

Gozun directed the Forest Management Bureau (FMB) to immediately review and evaluate the contracts.

She fears that the settlers might contaminate the water in Ipo Dam, which serves as the impounding reservoir of water coming from the Angat Dam, which supplies water to Metro Manila.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097177 [AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 134464 [Title] => ‘Alvarez made gross mathematical miscalculations on imports of CFCs’ [Summary] => The former head of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) said yesterday Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Heherson Alvarez got his mathematics wrong in the controversy surrounding the importation last year of some P100 million worth of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

"The secretary made gross mathematical miscalculations," said former EMB chief Peter Anthony Abaya, who faces administrative charges for allegedly granting permits to eight new industry players to import the substances. Executives of the eight companies also face charges.
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1708612 [AuthorName] => Romel Bagares [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 104656 [Title] => Jalosjos makes new Congress bid [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Will convicted rapist Rep. Romeo Jalosjos make it again despite being behind bars? Or will it be the end of his political career?

This, as the Commission on Elections’ regional office confirmed that Jalosjos has filed his certificate of candidacy for his "re-election" in the first congressional district of Zamboanga del Norte.

In the 1998 elections, Jolosjos ran for Congress and won despite being unable to campaign as he began serving his life sentence for statutory rape at the National Penitentiary in Muntinlupa City.
[DatePublished] => 2001-03-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 104449 [Title] => Negros group up in arms vs coal-fired power plant project [Summary] => BACOLOD CITY — A group calling itself the "Negrosanons Against Coal-Fired Power Plant" (NACPP) vowed yesterday to barrage Malacañang and other concerned government agencies with letters of protest until the "midnight" environmental clearance certificate (ECC) which former Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Antonio Cerilles issued to the controversial project in Pulupandan town is revoked and recalled.
[DatePublished] => 2001-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096446 [AuthorName] => Antonieta Lopez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105239 [Title] => Injunction out vs Semirara landfill [Summary] => An Antique judge has issued a writ of preliminary injunction against the controversial sanitary landfill project on Semirara Island which incidentally was scrapped by President Estrada following a public outcry.

Regional Trial Court Judge Sylvia Jurao, acting on the petition of the "United Antiqueños," said the dumping of garbage from Metro Manila on the island would result in "grave and irreparable injury and injustice" to the plaintiffs who have "a constitutional right to a healthy and balanced environment."

In other developments: [DatePublished] => 2001-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500820 [AuthorName] => Marvin Sy [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105219 [Title] => ‘No ecological risk at Semirara’ [Summary] => Even as Malacañang has trashed the planned sanitary landfill on Semirara Island in Antique, Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Antonio Cerilles insisted it poses no environmental risk to the biodiversity and other natural resources within and around the proposed site.

Cerilles said there is no environmental risk involved "as long as the approved environmental management plan submitted by the project proponents are strictly observed."
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105207 [Title] => Pampanga, Tarlac leaders up in arms vs dumping in Clark [Summary] => ANGELES CITY – Gov. Lito Lapid, mayors of Tarlac and this province and community leaders have expressed surprise over reports that garbage from Metro Manila is being dumped in an area within the Clark special economic zone.

"The move counters the will of the people of Pampanga. I am outraged and I will oppose it," said Lapid. Members of the Metro Clark Advisory Council, composed of mayors from Tarlac and Pampanga, held an emergency meeting yesterday to tackle the reports.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105128 [Title] => Antique court issues TRO vs landfill project [Summary] => Antique Gov. Francis Gideon Javier won the first round of his fight against the government’s plan to put up an interim sanitary landfill for Metro Manila’s wastes on Semirara Island, with the local regional trial court issuing a 72-hour temporary restraining order (TRO) against the project.

Antique RTC Judge Nery Duremdes also gave the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 15 days within which to reply to Javier’s petition seeking a permanent injunction to the landfill project.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 107600 [Title] => Cerilles opposes MMDA plan to open eight dumpsites in Metro [Summary] => Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Antonio Cerilles expressed yesterday strong opposition to the plan of Metro Manila mayors and the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to put up at least eight open dumpsites as alternatives to the closure next month of the San Mateo sanitary landfill.

Cerilles said that additional open dumpsites in Metro Manila posed potential environmental risks that will threaten the lives of people living near them.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES SECRETARY ANTONIO CERILLES
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                    [Title] => ‘Port Point operator should first comply with the rules’
                    [Summary] => SAN FERNANDO, La Union — The Poro Point Management Corp. (PPMC), a subsidiary of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA), would not allow the Poro Point Industrial Corp. (PPIC) to resume operations at the disputed seaport here despite the issuance of a court injunction last Friday, an official said.

[DatePublished] => 2006-08-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097171 [AuthorName] => Jun Elias [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 250945 [Title] => Usufruct contracts of Ipo settlers questioned [Summary] => Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Elisea Gozun has ordered an investigation into the usufruct contracts issued to some 47 individuals, allowing them to occupy areas in the watershed of Ipo Dam in Bulacan.

Gozun directed the Forest Management Bureau (FMB) to immediately review and evaluate the contracts.

She fears that the settlers might contaminate the water in Ipo Dam, which serves as the impounding reservoir of water coming from the Angat Dam, which supplies water to Metro Manila.
[DatePublished] => 2004-05-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097177 [AuthorName] => Katherine Adraneda [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 134464 [Title] => ‘Alvarez made gross mathematical miscalculations on imports of CFCs’ [Summary] => The former head of the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) said yesterday Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Heherson Alvarez got his mathematics wrong in the controversy surrounding the importation last year of some P100 million worth of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).

"The secretary made gross mathematical miscalculations," said former EMB chief Peter Anthony Abaya, who faces administrative charges for allegedly granting permits to eight new industry players to import the substances. Executives of the eight companies also face charges.
[DatePublished] => 2001-09-22 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1708612 [AuthorName] => Romel Bagares [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 104656 [Title] => Jalosjos makes new Congress bid [Summary] => ZAMBOANGA CITY — Will convicted rapist Rep. Romeo Jalosjos make it again despite being behind bars? Or will it be the end of his political career?

This, as the Commission on Elections’ regional office confirmed that Jalosjos has filed his certificate of candidacy for his "re-election" in the first congressional district of Zamboanga del Norte.

In the 1998 elections, Jolosjos ran for Congress and won despite being unable to campaign as he began serving his life sentence for statutory rape at the National Penitentiary in Muntinlupa City.
[DatePublished] => 2001-03-10 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804671 [AuthorName] => Roel Pareño [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 104449 [Title] => Negros group up in arms vs coal-fired power plant project [Summary] => BACOLOD CITY — A group calling itself the "Negrosanons Against Coal-Fired Power Plant" (NACPP) vowed yesterday to barrage Malacañang and other concerned government agencies with letters of protest until the "midnight" environmental clearance certificate (ECC) which former Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Antonio Cerilles issued to the controversial project in Pulupandan town is revoked and recalled.
[DatePublished] => 2001-02-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1096446 [AuthorName] => Antonieta Lopez [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105239 [Title] => Injunction out vs Semirara landfill [Summary] => An Antique judge has issued a writ of preliminary injunction against the controversial sanitary landfill project on Semirara Island which incidentally was scrapped by President Estrada following a public outcry.

Regional Trial Court Judge Sylvia Jurao, acting on the petition of the "United Antiqueños," said the dumping of garbage from Metro Manila on the island would result in "grave and irreparable injury and injustice" to the plaintiffs who have "a constitutional right to a healthy and balanced environment."

In other developments: [DatePublished] => 2001-01-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1500820 [AuthorName] => Marvin Sy [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105219 [Title] => ‘No ecological risk at Semirara’ [Summary] => Even as Malacañang has trashed the planned sanitary landfill on Semirara Island in Antique, Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Antonio Cerilles insisted it poses no environmental risk to the biodiversity and other natural resources within and around the proposed site.

Cerilles said there is no environmental risk involved "as long as the approved environmental management plan submitted by the project proponents are strictly observed."
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-15 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105207 [Title] => Pampanga, Tarlac leaders up in arms vs dumping in Clark [Summary] => ANGELES CITY – Gov. Lito Lapid, mayors of Tarlac and this province and community leaders have expressed surprise over reports that garbage from Metro Manila is being dumped in an area within the Clark special economic zone.

"The move counters the will of the people of Pampanga. I am outraged and I will oppose it," said Lapid. Members of the Metro Clark Advisory Council, composed of mayors from Tarlac and Pampanga, held an emergency meeting yesterday to tackle the reports.
[DatePublished] => 2001-01-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 105128 [Title] => Antique court issues TRO vs landfill project [Summary] => Antique Gov. Francis Gideon Javier won the first round of his fight against the government’s plan to put up an interim sanitary landfill for Metro Manila’s wastes on Semirara Island, with the local regional trial court issuing a 72-hour temporary restraining order (TRO) against the project.

Antique RTC Judge Nery Duremdes also gave the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) 15 days within which to reply to Javier’s petition seeking a permanent injunction to the landfill project.
[DatePublished] => 2000-12-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 107600 [Title] => Cerilles opposes MMDA plan to open eight dumpsites in Metro [Summary] => Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Antonio Cerilles expressed yesterday strong opposition to the plan of Metro Manila mayors and the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to put up at least eight open dumpsites as alternatives to the closure next month of the San Mateo sanitary landfill.

Cerilles said that additional open dumpsites in Metro Manila posed potential environmental risks that will threaten the lives of people living near them.
[DatePublished] => 2000-11-23 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1097133 [AuthorName] => Jose Rodel Clapano [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) ) )
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