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| Dumaguete City, Philippines | Friday, February 6, 2009 |
| Negros Oriental | |
 Dolphin stranding not alarming: SU Lab NAPOCOR confirms power supply deficit DAR-7 to form task force of CARP lawyers in region ‘Oil spill resulted in mangroves abnormalities’ |
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Dolphin stranding not
alarming: SU Lab
BY MARICAR ARANAS
A research assistant of the Marine Mammal Study of Silliman University Marine Laboratory yesterday said the two dolphin stranding cases cannot be considered alarming, because the death of the dolphins cannot be determined yet.
Edna Sabater admitted, though, that disturbance in habitat and threat to their food chain would affect the decreasing population of dolphins. Based on 2007 records, there were dolphin stranding resulted in five deaths, two in 2008 and another was rescued, and in January this year, two dolphin strandings were reported.
Sabater said dolphins are usually victims of incidental stranding, but some by intentional catching. She suggested that every local government unit should establish a marine mammal stranding network, whose members should be trained in the proper handling of the marine mammals.
| IN VISAYAS Provinces in the central Philippines will have to brace for more power interruptions in the coming months unless remedial measures are adopted, as the National Power Corporation confirms a shortfall in energy supply in the Visayas for the whole year. The projected deficit in power supply for the entire year was discussed Wednesday in a meeting in Cebu with officials from the Department of Energy, the NPC and other concerned agencies, said Emeterio Busmeon, Plant Technical Services Division Acting Manager of the NPA-Palinpinon Geothermal Power Plants in Valencia, Negros Oriental. |
| DAR-7 to form task force The Department of Agrarian Reform in Region 7 will adopt a new strategy in addressing all pending cases related to the implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program in Central Visayas. This comes following the death of Eleazar Casipong, one of two lawyers assigned to the Negros Oriental DAR office, who was shot dead last Saturday by still unidentified men for a still unknown motive. DAR-7 Regional Director Rodolfo Inson disclosed on Thursday that there are plans now to create a task force of lawyers from the provincial DAR offices in Cebu, Bohol and Negros Oriental. |
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