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 [...]

Malaybalay City Gov’t, BUSECO brainstorms settlement on tax liability

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/04 Nov) – The Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative, Inc. (BUSECO) headed by Branch Manager Juancho T. Chiong, once again met with City Treasurer, Danilo Linoay, City Legal Counsel, Atty. Julius Barroso, and the Sangguniang Panlungsod Committee on Ways and Means chair Councilor Perla E. Rubio and members Councilors Jay Warren R. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Malaybalay City Council: Collect, don’t condone, Buseco tax arrears

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/ 17 Sept.) The Malaybalay City Council passed a resolution on Sept. 13 denying the Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative’s appeal to condone surcharges of its P14-million tax arrears. Instead the city council called on the City Treasurer’s Office to collect payment in 10 days.

Another maintenance work turns power off in Bukidnon’s 6 northern towns

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/17 Sept.) The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) announced that six of Bukidnon’s 20 towns and two cities will experience a nine-hour power interruption Sunday. In an advisory emailed by the NGCP Corporate Affairs Department this week, they cited that power interruption will be experienced from 8 to [...]

Buseco pays off ERC ‘other charges’ case by P100T

MALAYBALAY CITY (Bukidnon News Dispatch/13 Sept) The Bukidnon Second Electric Cooperative’s case before the Energy Regulatory Commission over a complaint of alleged charging of ‘other fees’ is now ordered closed after the electric cooperative paid the sum of P100,000 as full payment in “satisfaction of the approved compromise in this case,” documents obtained by Bukidnon [...]

Central Bukidnon suffers 12-hour brown out

MALAYBALAY CITY – (Bukidnon News Dispatch/04 Sept) Most power consumers in the cities of Malaybalay and Valencia and the towns of Cabanglasan, Lantapan, and San Fernando, suffered brownout for about 12 hours Saturday, nine of it due to a maintenance operation of the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP). The interruption affected portions of [...]