Senator Ralph Recto yesterday urged Malacanang and Department of Energy to submit solutions that would supplement Congress' effort to come up with a better legislation to prevent power price spikes and blackouts in the future.

Recto said he believes the DOE officials can come out with good proposed amendments to the Electric Power Industry Act, Presidential Decree 910 on the use of the Malampaya gas proceeds, and other laws that will remove chokepoints in the building of power plants.

Recto likened the EPIRA to a power plant “which has been in operation for 12 years and is therefore due for some recalibration.”

96K bags of rice
arriving tonight

A total of 96,000 sacks of rice for Negros Occidental will be arriving at the Bacolod Real Estate Development Corporation Port in Bacolod City from Vietnam tonight.

Procopio Trabajo, NFA-Negros Occidental manager said, however, that they cannot unload the rice and bring them to their warehouse because of bad weather.

On Wednesday last week, the initial 130,000 sacks of rice arrived in Bacolod as part of the 500,000 sacks to be delivered to Negros Occidental for the next three months, to replenish what had been distributed to the victims of super typhoon Yolanda in Panay.

Winner in bulldozer
bidding announced

The Bids and Awards Committee has declared Tukobetsu Enterprise the lowest complying bidder out of the four suppliers who joined the bidding for the purchase of a crawler/bulldozer for the use of the Bacolod City Risk Reduction Management Office.

The other bidders were Con Equip and TKC Heavy Industrial Corporation from Cebu and Paccar Merchandising from Manila.

BAC chairman Jerome Solinap yesterday said Tukobetsu Enterprises was awarded the project on Dec. 27, 2013.