Browsing Philippine Daily Inquirer by Author "Orejas, Tonette"

8 die in rough seas; thousands flee floods

Cinco, Maricar; Arguelles, Mar S.; Orejas, Tonette; Gascon, Melvin; Chiu, Patricia Denise M.; Semilla, Nestle; Burgos, Nestor P. Jr.; Franco, Joel; Gabieta, Joey; Gomez, Carla (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 4, 2019, on page A5)

Eleven people died on Saturday after three passenger boats capsized in rough waters in the Visayas, while thousands fled their homes as monsoon rains triggered floods and caused rivers to swell in several provinces in ...

Alcohol eyed in Pampanga River fish kill

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 1, 2017, on page A10)

Molasses discharged by an alcohol fermentation plant into the Pampanga River on Sept. 19 may have reduced the amount of dissolved oxygen to a degree that could have triggered a fish kill incident near the towns of Macabebe ...

Alcohol plant faces fines for fish kill

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 7, 2017, on page A14)

An alcohol fermenting plant faces penalties following the spill of 46,000 liters of molasses that was initially ruled as the cause of the fish kill downstream of the Pampanga River on Sept. 20. Lormelyn Claudio, director ...

Coral deaths, fish kills blamed on shrimp farm

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 31, 2000, on page 18)

Diapitan Resources Development Corp. cut 14 hectares of mangroves to build its shrimp ponds, aerial photographs confirmed. The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, however, has not looked into the violation ...

DENR, Aurora fishermen in tug-of-war over logs

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 16, 2021, on page A8)

Several fishermen in Aurora province have asked the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to give them the 175 big logs they found floating in the Pacific Ocean. The logs were discovered near the coastlines ...

DENR: Trash traps spare Manila Bay 30 tons of waste from Central Luzon

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 18, 2020, on page A4)

Around 30 tons of solid waste have been caught by floating trash traps installed in rivers downstream of Central Luzon since early this year, preventing these from reaching Manila Bay, according to a top Department of ...

Fishkill traced to rain, flood, sewage

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 28, 2015, on page A20)

Rain, floodwater and sewage draining into the Pampanga River caused oxygen in water to drop to extremely low levels, killing thousands of fish downstream in Candaba, Masantol and Macabebe towns last week, according to a ...

Form Manila Bay body, Du30 asked

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 16, 2019, on page A11)

Following his order in January to clean up the Manila Bay, President Duterte has been asked to certify as urgent a bill that seeks the creation of the Manila Bay Development Authority. Bataan Rep. Jose Enrique Garcia III ...

Group hails move to save Subic mangroves, awaits revised railway alignment

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 6, 2021, on page B4)

A coalition of residents, tourism investors, Aetas, local government units and civil society groups in Subic Bay Freeport (SBF), Olongapo City, and the provinces of Zambales and Bataan looked forward to seeing the revised ...

Let's go to Panatag, fishers dare Roque

Aglibot, Joanna Rose; Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 15, 2021, on page A8)

Two vessels of the Chinese Coast Guard are permanently positioned at the mouth of the 150-kilometer-wide Scarborough Shoal (Panatag or Bajo de Masinloc to locals), preventing Filipino fishermen from entering, fishing or ...

Mangrove park outside of planned Bulacan airport

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, August 24, 2019, on page A10)

A mangrove park that was rehabilitated by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) in a town in Bulacan province is far from the proposed 2,500-hectare New Manila International Airport project of San ...

Molasses spill blamed for fish kill

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 21, 2017, on page A8)

The Apalit town government in Pampanga province has suspended the business permit of an alcohol fermentation plant operating there, following fish kill reports along the stretch of Pampanga River in the towns of Macabebe ...

Pampanga wetland named site of 'International Importance'

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, February 4, 2021, on page A1-A5)

The 3,667.31-hectare Sasmuan Pampanga Coastal Wetland (SPCW) has been listed as a “wetland of international importance” under the Ramsar Convention standards, an official said on Wednesday. Martha Rojas Urrego, secretary-general ...

PH building Batanes shelter for fishers

Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 19, 2018, on page A1-A6)

Before any dispute erupts over an uninhabited island in northern Philippines, the government is building a shelter for fishermen on Mavulis Island — the northernmost of the Batanes Islands — to assert the country’s ...

PH fishers returning to Scarborough: China intrusion scares Zambales men but fishing only livelihood source

Macatuno, Allan; Orejas, Tonette; Anda, Redempto (Philippine Daily Inquirer, March 1, 2014, on page A6)

Despite the trauma, fishermen have sailed back to Scarborough (Panatag) Shoal, braving harassment from Chinese coast guard vessels in order to eke out a living. Mario Frones, a fishing boat operator, sent a boat to the ...

'Quinta' lashes Luzon; 13 fishermen missing

Andrade, Jeannette I.; Enano, Jhesset O.; Pazzibugan, Dona Z.; Domingo, Ronnel W.; Cinco, Maricar; Mallari, Delfin T. Jr.; Mier-Manjares, Ma. April; Virola, Madonna T.; Arguelles, Mar; Reyes-Estrope, Carmela; Visaya, Villamor Jr.; Refraccion, Greg; Orejas, Tonette (Philippine Daily Inquirer, October 27, 2020, on page A4)

Typhoon “Quinta” lashed Luzon overnight, dumping heavy rains that caused flooding, toppling power lines, and whipping up giant waves that sank at least 30 boats off Batangas and Bataan provinces, disaster officials said ...