BALANGA CITY,Bataan- Former Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) chairman and administrator Felicito C. Payumo has gained a foothold in his advocacy of protecting 18,000 hectares of Bataan National Park during the Environmental Protection and Climate Change Summit held at the Bataan Peoples’ Center yesterday.
Orani, Bataan- The Department of Public Works and Highways has earmarked P 3.5 billion for the Integrated Flood Control Projects in the town of Lubao in Pampanga and the three (3) Northern Bataan towns of Dinalupihan, Hermosa and Orani to solve horrible flooding which resulted to massive destruction of agricultural crops , fishponds , […]
The Provincial Engineering Office (PEO) is undertaking declogging of heavily silted rivers and tributaries in the two flood prone northern Bataan towns.
Engineer Enrico Yuson, PEO Head identified the three major rivers in Hermosa and Dinalupihan towns as Almacen, Caulaman and Layac as the priority projects this rainy season since flooding cannot be avoided due to denuded forests in the mountain ranges in Zambales, Bataan and Pampanga .
BALANGA CITY- Bataan Governor Albert Raymond S. Garcia is eyeing the expertise of the (NEDA) to undertake an in –depth and efficient appraisal performance analysis of the local government units to find out exactly the socio-economic impact of their development programs in the countryside.
He stressed the NEDA should conduct a positive assessment of the local government agencies instead of concentrating on the regional stage as part of the performance measurement study of their capability of pursuing good governance, socio-economic and investments levels .
BALANGA CITY- Mayor Alice D. Pizarro of Pilar town, this Province, is contemplating on implementing the zoning ordinance after consultations with various socio-economic sectors regarding the transferring of junk shops along the national road in Barangay Sta. Rosa to other places to give way to the expected spill-over of commercial establishments from the nearby component […]
BALANGA CITY, Bataan- Governor Albert Raymond S. Garcia has requested the Department of Science and Technology (DOST) for the installation of 34 hydrometeorological devices such as the Water Level Monitoring Stations (WLMS) ,Automatic Rain Gauges (ARG) and Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) in the eleven towns of Bataan and in this City. Garcia wrote Victor Mariano, […]
BALANGA CITY , Bataan – The construction of a modern waste to energy processing plant worth $200 million in the upland village of the coastal town of Orion, this province, is reportedly the first investment portfolio from the collaborative projects from South Korean firms following a successful four-man delegation visit last month.
Mayor Antonio Raymundo, Jr. of Orion town said that South Korean businessmen showed enormous interest investing in the historic peninsula of Bataan focusing on waste processing to power generation.
BALANGA CITY – The provincial government of Bataan is eyeing a new concept of disposing garbage after seriously evaluating the performances of environment –friendly South Korean technology to solve the waste problem while doing away with the costly sanitary landfill project .
Governor Albert Raymond S. Garcia headed the four-man delegation to observe the thriving operations of four waste to energy facilities in South Korea last week.
Garcia said the new trend in garbage technology being propagated by the Korean technocrats is to do away with the more costly landfill project and instead go for a cheaper and safer know-how in disposing waste by turning them into pellets that would in turn be used as fuel for power plant.
BALANGA CITY, Bataan- Mayor Rommel V. del Rosario of Bagac has vehemently denied the reported illegal extraction of boulders in the upland village of Banawang saying the source of the boulders is a privately-owned property . Del Rosario believes that a group is just creating an issue using unfounded accusations of illegal quarrying inside a […]
BALANGA CITY- Executive Secretary Paquito N Ochoa, Jr. has asked the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) to include the request of Mayor Rommel V. Del Rosario of Bagac town for funding allocation for the implementation of projects amounting to P 250.2 million for one of the host sites for the 2015 Asia Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) summit, the Las Casas de Acuzar , in the coastal village of Pag-asa ,Bagac town , this Province.