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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Monday, November 12, 2007 |
IN TANON STRAIT
Oil drilling set to start
BY ALEX PAL
Environmentalists are keeping a tight watch on the Department of Energy's oil exploration drilling in Tañon Strait , which is scheduled to start this week.
The drilling will take place on board a floating oil rig which was towed to the site, some three kilometers off the coast of the municipalities of Aloguinsan and Pinamungahan in Cebu .
These areas are directly across the towns of La Libertad and Jimalalud in Negros Oriental. But the fear of scientists is the possible harm that the noise of underwater blasting would have on the sea creatures. 
| Man draws life sentence A man was sentenced to life imprisonment for selling shabu and 14 years for possession of the banned substance while another was acquitted, also for drugs, by the Regional Trial Court Branch 30, Friday, at the Hall of Justice, Barangay Piapi, Dumaguete City . Judge Rafael Crescencio Tan Jr. of the RTC Branch 30 meted the life term to Gerry Palubio Jr. who was caught in a buy-bust operation in his residence at Oracion Subdivision, Looc.on March 7, 2004 in the act of selling one sachet of shabu to a poseur-buyer, court records show. This is in violation of Section 5, Article 2 of Republic Act No. 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, it added. |
| Rice shipment to augment Three shipments of Vietnam rice with a total of 91,000 bags arrived in Negros Oriental in October, the National Food Authority said in a press release yesterday. NFA records showed that the first shipment of 20,000 rice bags arrived on Oct. 7, followed by 30,000 bags on Oct. 20 and 41,000 bags on Oct. 29. The rice allocation of the province for 2007 is 390,000 bags, an NFA source said. |
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