Browsing by Subject "fuels"

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    • 1,072 fisherfolks to receive fuel subsidy 

      (Panay News, July 11, 2022, on page 9)
      In Capiz, 1,072 fisherfolks with motorboats are expected to receive fuel subsidy in the form of discount cards from the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR). Each fisherfolk will receive P3,000 worth of fuel ...

    • 105 families flee bunker oil fumes: PCG mulls raps vs barge owner for oil spill 

      Silubrico, Ruby; Co, Adrian Stewart (Panay News, July 6, 2020, on page 1-14)
      Harsh fumes from the bunker fuel that spilled from a power barge in Barangay Bo. Obrero, Lapuz district here drove 105 families or 378 persons away from their houses, according to the City Disaster Risk Reduction and ...

    • 971 farmers, fisherfolk in southern Cebu get P3,000 fuel assistance 

      Veloso, Arvie N.; Tan, Tito P. (SunStar Philippines, July 31, 2022, on page 5)
      At least 971 farmers and fishermen in southern Cebu received a fuel discount card each from the Department of Agriculture in Central Visayas (DA 7) that will be used for their livelihood. Each fuel discount card contains ...

    • 'Bad accident': Ayala firm brings in team to probe barge blast, oil spill 

      Rendon, Jennifer P. (DailyGuardian, July 7, 2020, on page 1-11)
      Despite claims by the Bureau of Fire Protection- Region 6 (BFP-6) that negligence and recklessness caused the explosion in Power Barge 102, Ayala-owned AC Energy Philippines said they’re still unsure of what really caused ...

    • Barge owner pressed to pay for oil spill 

      Silubrico, Ruby (Panay News, July 8, 2020, on page 1-14)
      AC Energy Corp., owner of the power barge that discharged bunker oil into this city’s waters following an explosion Friday last week, is being pressed to compensate those adversely affected. “There is no skirting the issue. ...

    • BFAR agrees to look into giving fishermen fuel subsidy 

      GMA News (DailyGuardian, October 26, 2021, on page 7)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has agreed to look into the possibility of giving fuel subsidy to fishermen to allow them to expand their fishing activities in the West Philippine Sea. In an interview ...

    • BFAR earmarks ₱1.7B for Cordova 

      Chavez, Chito A. (Manila Bulletin, August 31, 2013, on page 13)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) has earmarked ₱1.7 billion for the residents of Cordova, Cebu who were severely affected by the oil spill caused by the sinking of "M/V St. Thomas Aquinas" two weeks ...

    • Biokubo: The search for an alternative feedstock for biodiesel 

      Razon, Luis F. (The Philippine Star, December 22, 2011, on page B-5)
      Studies have shown that the biodiesel process utilizing waste cooking oils had a better rate of return than a process which used virgin oil, although all of the processes in their papers had negative rates of return. There ...

    • Bulacan fisherfolk get fuel subsidies 

      Silverio, Frederick (The Manila Times, November 18, 2023, on page A8)
      A total of 151 Bulacan fisherfolk received fuel subsidy cards from the Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) in Region 3 (Central Luzon) on Friday morning, November 17. The distribution ...

    • Cavite gov downplays diesel spill destruction 

      Cinco, Maricar; Santos, Tina; Olchondra, Riza; Tubeza, Philip (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 10, 2013, on page A1-A2)
      A diesel oil spill on Manila Bay that raises potential environmental and health hazards and threatens to ruin the capital’s vital fishing industry has “95-percent” evaporated, leaving only “a thin film” of fuel on the ...

    • Central Luzon fishermen get fuel discount 

      Reyes, Jonas (Daily Tribune, March 25, 2022, on page B15)
      A total of 6,709 fisherfolk in Central Luzon are set to receive fuel subsidy from the Department of Agriculture (DA) even as it launched the first ever Solar Powered Fertigation System (SPFS) in Pampanga. Agriculture ...

    • China trains fishing militia to venture into Spratlys 

      (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 2, 2016, on page A1-A23)
      The fishing fleet based in this tiny port town on Hainan Island is getting everything from military training and subsidies to even fuel and ice as China creates an increasingly sophisticated fishing militia to sail into ...

    • Coast Guard to finish oil spill recovery process by July 12 

      Rendon, Jennifer P. (DailyGuardian, July 8, 2020, on page 1-11)
      Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the Philippine Coast Guard-Iloilo Station has set July 10, or at most July 12, 2020, to finish the recovery process of the oil spill that leaked out of Power Barge 102. Lieutenant ...

    • Containment and retrieval are a must - oil spill expert 

      Angelo, Francis Allan L. (DailyGuardian, July 6, 2020, on page 1-10)
      The images of the oil spill caused by an explosion in a power barge stationed in Lapuz, Iloilo City on July 3, 2020 brought back images of similar incidents in Guimaras, Estancia, Iloilo and Semirara, Antique. For UP-Visayas ...

    • Corn farmers, fisherfolk granted P3,000 to apply to fuel purchases 

      Jocson, Luisa Maria Jacinta C. (BusinessWorld, March 9, 2022, on page S1/4)
      Corn farmers and fisherfolk have been granted P3,000 to apply to their fuel purchases, subject to conditions, in order to cushion the impact of rising oil prices, the Department of Agriculture (DA) said. “We are confronted ...

    • DA to implement fuel discount program for farmers, fishermen 

      (Manila Bulletin, January 27, 2022, on page B-3)
      The Department of Agriculture (DA) is set to implement the “Fuel Discount for Farmers and Fisherfolk Program,” as provided under the Special Provision No. 20 of the General Appropriations Act (GAA) for Fiscal Year 2022 or ...

    • Don't eat dead fish from oil spill-hit areas, BFAR warns 

      Sornito, Ime (Panay News, July 9, 2020, on page 1-14)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) in Western Visayas has issued a warning against eating dead fish in coastal areas contaminated by bunker fuel from a barge damaged by an explosion last week. Remia Aparri, ...

    • Energy department awaits go-ahead on oil drilling in West Philippine Sea 

      Domingo, Ronnel W. (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 14, 2017, on page A10)
      The Department of Energy (DOE) is ready to resume drilling for oil and natural gas on Recto Bank in the West Philippine Sea, but when work will restart is up to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), which suspended the ...

    • Extraction of Solar 1 oil set: Foreign group hired for job; 2 M liters of bunker fuel still in tanker 

      (Manila Bulletin, February 10, 2007, on page 14)
      After almost six months of waiting, Petron will soon start the extraction of remaining bunker fuel inside three cylinders of the vessel, Solar 1, which wrecked havoc on the environment when it split oil after it had sunk ...

    • Exxon allots billions to turn algae into fuel 

      Bloomberg (Manila Standard, November 5, 2017, on page B2)
      One of the world's biggest oil companies is pumping more than $1 billion a year into alternative forms of energy from algae engineered to bloom into biofuels and cells that turn emissions into electricity. The funds from ...