calls for DOE


energy conservation


Officials of the Department of Energy (DOE) are asking the public to help conserve energy, saying that power does have limits and the country’s energy requirement is getting bigger. The DOE officials sounded the call as the agency completed Thursday a three-day activity on product labeling and consumer rights, among others, here in Dumaguete City. Isagani Soriano, the current division chief of the lighting and appliance testing laboratory under the Energy Research Testing Laboratory Services of the DOE, told reporters that the country is lacking in energy supply.


“Kulang talaga tayo (we are really lacking ) in energy”, Soriano said. In fact, he disclosed that the DOE has a program up to 2040 to meet the energy requirement of the country, which will “go (up) as much as 34,000 MW”. Energy is not limitless and


therefore people have to cooperate to protect the environment and save on energy, Soriano stressed. The DOE had conducted a public consultation as well as information and education on product labeling, particularly for items covered by the regulation, such as airconditioners and


Negros Oriental Chamber of Commerce and Industry President Edward Du receives the Hall of Fame Award from President Rodrigo Duterte for NOCCI’s winning as the Most Outstanding Chamber of the Philippines for three consecutive years, during the Philippine Business Conference last week at the Manila Hotel. (PCOO photo)


refrigerators, as well as lighting, specifically LED, to help in energy conservation. For his part, Antonio Labios,


the DOE regional director for Central Visayas or Region 7, disclosed that the current energy outlook in the Visayas region is


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Macias vows status quo


Acting Governor Edward Mark Macias says he has prepared himself for the worst 90 days of his life, the very period he is filling in for suspended Gov. Roel Degamo.


statement in a meeting with the staff of the Office of the Governor, where he quoted Cebu Vice Gov. Agnes Magpale who also served as acting governor of that province following the suspension of her governor. Magpale was quoted to have referred to her stint as acting governor as “the worst six months of my life.” Macias told Capitol


Mayor Felipe Remollo and officials from the City Hall and the public market inspect the proposed design of the Dumaguete Public Market as submitted by students of the Department of Architecture and Fine Arts of Foundation University, in line with the City’s plans to renovate the market and move City Hall to a new location. (Photo by Don Ray Rubioruperto)


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reiterated he will not do major changes in the present set-up of the provincial government in a meeting with department heads Monday. However, Macias stressed


personnel that as the acting governor he is prepared to have the worse 90 days of his life, but is hoping and praying it will not happen to him as he appealed for cooperation


Macias told them in the vernacular “antusa lang usa ko ninyo og gamay” (please bear with me for a short while), as I only have 85 days left before Gov. Roel Degamo is back in January next year”. Gov. Degamo is on a 90-


that employees will have to cooperate and that they have to work as required of them for the remaining 85 days of his stint as caretaker of the province.


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day preventive suspension by the Sandiganbayan for a case filed against him in relation to the P480-million calamity fund for the province. Macias said he will try to solve problems as he sees them and that the first thing that he wanted to be briefed on is the status of the medicine procurement program at the


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