The San Carlos Diocese called on the Department of Environment and Natural Resources  and other government monitoring bodies to strictly monitor the proposed barging out of waste water by the San Carlos Bio- Energy Industry,  Bishop Gerardo Alminaza, bishop of the San Carlos Diocese said, a press release from the diocese said.

"We are not opposing the barging out of waste water as long as it strictly complies with international protocols," Alminaza said.

"It is morally permissible," the bishop said, adding that "the problem  is the issue of monitoring", the press release said.

DAR turns over
P5 million in infra

Department of Agrarian Reform turned over about P5 million worth of infrastructures to Brgy. General Malvar in Pontevedra town, Negros Occidental, yesterday.

Lucresia Taberna, Provincial Agrarian Reform Program Reform Officer for Southern Negros Occidental, said one of the projects is the construction of the two-classroom building with comfort rooms that costs P1.5 million and is expected to benefit 189 students.

Aside from the classrooms, DAR also constructed 450-square meter multi-purpose pavement networks  in Puroks 1 and 5, that  will be used to dry rice grains, at  a total cost of P1 million, she said.

Coconut prices
drop in Region 6

Western Visayas seems to have weathered the storm as prices of coconut oil and related products have stabilized to near-normal levels seven months after super typhoon Yolanda slammed the region.

The Philippine Coconut Authority said Yolanda almost brought Western Visayas down to its knees with thousands of coconut trees destroyed, notably in the province of Aklan where about 6 to 8 percent of coconut oil is sourced.

According to the PCA Regional Office 6, Yolanda bore down heavily on the region's coconut industry with damage reaching up to 16 percent, and Aklan province bearing the brunt of nature's wrath.

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