PNoy asked to order transfer of 3 power barges from Panay to Mindanao

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/12 March) – President Benigno Aquino III has been urged to intervene in the impending power shortage in Mindanao by ordering to forgo the sale of three power barges presently stationed in Panay Island and temporarily transfer it to appropriate stations in Mindanao. In asking Aquino to intervene, Nestor Degoma, president of [...]

Provincial board endorses Hedcor hydro projects in Kitaotao

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News/03 December) – The Bukidnon Sangguniang Panlalawigan passed a resolution Thursday endorsing the 28.2-megawatt hydroelectric power project of Hedcor Bukidnon Inc. in barangays Sinuda and Kipilas in Kitaotao town, along the province’s boundary with Davao City.

Climbers, energy foundation launch light systems for families, communities

MALAYBALAY CITY- Eighty-three families belonging to off-grid communities along Mt. Dulang-dulang of Kitanglad Range will be given light in the form of solar lamps (otherwise called  Portable Solar Home Systems) on November 26-27 as a start of ‘Hike for Light 2011’ campaigned by Solar Energy Foundation (SEF) in partnership with Kaya ng Pinoy Foundation (KPF) [...]

ERC hears Bukidnon electric coops’ bid to buy transmission lines

MARAMAG, Bukidnon (Bukidnon News/20 November) The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has started the hearings last week on the application by a consortium of the province’s two electric cooperatives to buy sub-transmission lines from the National Transmission Corporation (Transco).

City Council to NIA: quantify maintenance counterpart

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/18 Nov 2011)–The National Irrigation Authority (NIA) represented by Eng’r. Oscar Capundag, Jr. and Eng’r. Elpedio Lacernas, Jr.,paid the City Council of Malaybalay a visit during their 39th Regular Session on Nov. 15, 2011 upon the request also of City Councilor Jay Warren R. Pabillaran to discuss the Memorandum Of Agreement [...]

Proposed Pulangi V gets RDC-10 nod, with conditions – SP records

MALAYBALAY CITY  (Bukidnon News/11 to 12 November) The First Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative and Greenergy Development Corporation, proponents of the proposed 300 mega-watt Pulangi V Hydroelectric power project, were able to obtain in June 2011 an endorsement from the Northern Mindanao Regional Development Council (RDC) to the “Department of Energy and other concerned agencies for [...]

NEA to Buseco: Follow court order, re-instate Santoninio

MALAYBALAY CITY  (Bukidnon News/18 October) The National Electrification Administration said Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative board member Jonally Santoninio keeps his post as director until the election of a new board member from Malaybalay City district.

Kalilangan lumber trader charged for transporting ‘excess’ forest products

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/27 September) The Community and Environment and Natural Resources Office of Malaybalay filed charges against the owner of a truck from Kalilangan town that transported naturally grown forest products beyond allowable excess. According to the criminal complaint filed by Leon C. Equipelag, special forestry prosecutor, before the Office of the [...]

Buseco apologizes; city council: apology not enough on brown outs

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/Sept 30-Oct.1) The Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative (Buseco) apologized to the members of the Malaybalay City Council amid City Councilor Melchor Maramara’s inquiry on the frequent brownouts in Brgy, Kalasungay, where he lives. The city council invited Buseco officials including Malaybalay branch manager Juancho T. Chiong with public relations officer [...]

Re-scaling produces higher excess for Kalilangan lumber trader

MALAYBALAY CITY – The re-scaling of apprehended lumber transported by a Kalilangan lumber trader produced a much higher excess, Felix Mirasol, chief of the environment department’s Community Environment and Natural Resources Office in Malaybalay told Bukidnon News Thursday. Mirasol said the repeat measurement of the forest products now under police and DENR custody, requested by [...]

Rehab of Rio Grande de Mindanao, “a high priority, high impact” project

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 29 Sept)– The Rehabilitation of the Rio Grande de Mindanao is one of the 10 high priority and high impact proposed projects as presented in the Mindanao River Basin Integrated Management and Development Plan, a copy of which was obtained by Bukidnon News. In the last chapter of the 16-chapter [...]

SPECIAL REPORT: Tribal leaders to withhold support for Pulangui V

By Carrell C. Magno and Laurie Ailynne M. Benito Bangsamoro Center for Just Peace (via Bukidnon News with permission from VERA Files) Leaders of indigenous communities in Bukidnon have refused to engage in any discussion over the planned construction of the Pulangui V Hydroelectric Project (HEP), until dam proponents submit a cultural impact assessment that [...]

PH to use more renewable energy – DOE USec

MAKATI CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 28 Sept) — “The Philippines is indeed abundant with renewable energy resources.” This was stressed by Energy Undersecretary Jose Layug Jr to regional reporters during the Media Training Program on Energy held at Asian Institute of Management (AIM) Conference Center in Makati City, Sept. 26. Layug added that expanding the [...]

CDA calls on Bukidnon electric coops to register

MALAYBALAY CITY – The Cooperative Development Authority calls on the the management of the two power distributors in Bukidnon, namely First Bukidnon Electric Cooperative (FIBECO) and Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative (BUSECO), in its reiterated campaign for  these Electric Cooperatives (EC) to register under CDA.

Malaybalay, Valencia transport groups set to join Monday strike – STAREX

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/19 Sept.) Bukidnon will be part of the national transport strike Monday to show discontent over President Benigno Simeon Aquino III’s inaction to address the unabated surge of oil price increases, with operators and drivers associations working with the Solidarity of Transport Alliance in Region X (STAREX), holding protests in [...]