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training. Establishing BDRRMO in each barangay in Villanueva, he added, “will surely mean a lot.” “It is quite an advantage if anyone in the barangay knows about first aid or life support in time of disaster.” “Much more if there’s cohesiveness among the people in the barangay for this worthy endeavor.” The Gotianun-led FDC MPC, shouldered the oneyear accident insurance for every training participantturned-rescue volunteer. “FDC Misamis continue its mandate in engaging its host communities. We recognize the importance of increasing the community’s capacities in reducing vulnerabilities during catastrophes. Hence, we are one with the local government of Villanueva in its purpose to build disaster resilient societies. Through such programs, we can ensure that appropriate and effective actions are taken during emergency situations,” said Juan Eugenio L. Roxas, head of FDC Misamis Power Corporation. The power company then wished that every BDRRMO in Villanueva town will become sustainable and resilient at all times.
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2 for the expropriation of an SSS lot at the Financial Center Area. The said area would be used by NGCP for its construction of a substation. It was learned that NGCP holds a 25-year concession to manage, maintain and operate the country’s power transmission system. NGCP told the lower court that it needed to immediately build a substation that will accommodate the increasing power demand of Greater Manila Area. The project is to be called the Pasay 230kV Substation. The 60,872-sqm lot is priced at P24,000 per sqm for a total valuation of P1,460,928,000. Thus, ruling on the expropriation, the judge said the NGCP had complied with the requisites of Section 6 of Republic Act 10572 (Right-of-Way Act), which include filing a complaint, service of notice to the other party and a deposit of the provisional amount based on the relevant zonal value of the land to be expropriated. The SSS appealed the decision but it was rejected on April 24. According to the pension fund, the judge acted with grave abuse of discretion when she ruled in favor of the expropriation without legal basis. The SSS said the NGCP had no authority to file an expropriation case and be entitled to a writ of possession since the latter was a private corporation “seeking to acquire by compulsion a government property al-
ready devoted to public purpose.” The pension fund noted the trial court should have acted first on the issue of NGCP’s authority to expropriate government property. “If we were to follow the line of reasoning that compliance by NGCP with the requisites under Section 6 of RA 10752, alone, serves to entitle it to a writ of possession, then any entity who files an expropriation complaint, gives notice to the landowner and deposits 100 percent of the relevant BIR zonal valuation should, as a matter of course, be issued a writ of possession,” the petition said. “This has a far-reaching implication, especially in this case because as a consequence a private entity, like the NGCP ends up having possession of a government property divesting in the process the government’s possession and use of the property for the purpose it was devoted to, and later become the owner of government property,” it added. The SSS noted Section 6 of RA 10752 was intended to facilitate government infrastructure projects on the premise that it is the national government acquiring the real property. “The intent is to provide a shortcut in favor of government to curtail the long and tedious procedural requirement that it should observe in implementing national infrastructure projects owing to public accountability,” the petition said. “Thus, the law provided government with the advantage of possession without having to initially show the validity of its authority on considerations of diminishing causes of delay and efficiency in the delivery of public services,” it added. The SSS also said the expropriation of the property “will definitely deprive SSS’ possible investment opportunities, affect its actuarial life, to the detriment of SSS and its members.” — with NB/KVD, GMA News
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and voltage profile simulations, as mentioned in paragraph 2 on page 6 of the ERC Decision dated 17 November 2014 docketed as ERC Case No. 2014-060, the ERC finds the under-voltage problem at DASURECO’s existing receiving load-end station will only happen in the year 2022, which states: “Based on the result of the above simulations, the under voltage problems at the receiving end of DASURECO will only happen in the year 2022. The said problem will be mitigated by connecting DASURECO in the switchyard through the installation of the 50 MVA transformer and the associated equipment in the year 2022. This being the case, the said project could be included in the corresponding Regulatory Reset (2021-2025).”
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Wednesday, July 12, 2017 That being the case and in observance to NGCP’s statutory mandate, NGCP should have already determined prior to the relevant rate application, based upon NGCP’s planning studies and data analysis particularly for this project component, that the under-voltage problem will be experienced by DASURECO in the year 2022. For that reason, NGCP should have excluded the 50 MVA step-down transformer in the Malita – Matanao 230 kV Transmission line project. Thus, the Malita – Matanao 230 kV Transmission line project will be considered as Connection Asset and should be excluded in NGCP’s amended TDP for the 3rd RP. Thus, the rate application for the Malita – Matanao 230 kV Transmission line project is no longer applicable,” the earlier opposition stated. This is pursuant, following and adhering to ERC Resolution 23 Series of 2016, whereby the said Resolution provided the delineation of Asset Boundaries, on whether it is a Transmission Asset or Connection Asset and the responsibility by the Transmission Provider (NGCP) or Generation customers to construct, install and finance such asset, respectively. Notwithstanding, the difference in the intention when filing a rate application versus a service agreement under Section 16 and 17 of the OATS Rules, whereby a rate application, in such case if NGCP filed for a rate application, NGCP intends to recover the Capital Expenditures of a transmission asset or transmission project by collecting Power Delivery Service charge in order to commensurate with NGCP’s expected Annual Revenue requirement to be passed on to the power consumers , while a Service Agreement on the other hand, would only provide a Reimbursement Arrangement between NGCP and the Generation customer and there is no additional NGCP transmission charge and recovery of the annual revenue requirement that shall be passed on to the power consumers. Nevertheless, a service Agreement should have been filed on this particular case. The Opposition filed earlier also stated: Based on the foregoing premises, NGCP acted in bad faith and abused its discretion, as follows: 1) Integration and inclusion of the Malita – Matanao 230 kV Transmission line project as part of NGCP’s amended TDP for the 3rd RP; 2) Intentional and purposeful filing of the rate application further violating the rules of practice and procedure of the ERC with utmost disregard on submission of ultimate facts; 3) Conduct unbecoming, with prejudice to the best interest of the power consumers in Mindanao, and intention to recover
the CAPEX of the project by filing of a rate application instead of a Service Agreement to the ERC; and 4) Grave abuse of discretion by extending preferential accommodation to San Miguel Consolidated Power Corporation (SMCPC) on the implementation of the Malita – Matanao 230 kV transmission line project resulting to fraud, disadvantage, inconvenience, losses that resulted to the following: a. Exercise of the power of Eminent Domain on the inapplicability of the Malita – Matanao 230 kV Transmission Line Project to be a transmission asset; b. Implementation of Malita – Matanao 230 kV Transmission line project despite non – compliance on network, operational and security criteria of the PGC, particularly the non-compliance of N-1 contingency, resulting to a possible Mindanao Wide System Disturbance when SMCPC Unit No. 2 goes online; c. Consenting to financial losses burdened by existing Generating Plants during the implementation of System Integration Protection Scheme (SIPS), a contingency measure to temporary resolve the non-compliance of N-1 contingency, wherein automatic load dropping will be implemented by the System Operator, which is NGCP, in any breach on the single line outage scenario, particularly along the Davao – Toril 138 kV T/L section, resulting to force the existing Generating plants to reduce its generating capacity that would translate to financial losses; and d. Voluntarily exposing the Mindanao transmission system to security risks because of the noncompliance of N-1 contingency for a long duration starting 2017-2019 due to the latest reconfiguration of the Mindanao transmission system, with the addition of Malita – Matanao 230 kV Transmission line and two (2) units of SMCPC Coal Plant; e. Imminent and potential exposure of the Mindanao transmission system to Mindanao wide blackouts that could intensify the security risks not only for Davao but for the people of Mindanao, including the President himself, President Rodrigo R. Duterte. “The rate application should have been dismissed immediately by the ERC, considering that the filing is procedurally illegal since this project does not legally qualify for approval by the Honorable Commission and correspondingly, the said project should have been immediately excluded in the NGCP’s amended Transmission Development Plan and should be carved out from its Regulated Asset Base for the 3rd Regulatory Period in order not to allow NGCP from collecting unwarranted
transmission charges as part of NGCP’s recovery of the annual revenue requirement payable by the Mindanao power consumers.,” Apparently, the ERC approval on this NGCP project will not redound to the benefit of the power consumers, the complaint concluded.
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b ai le y br idge re ache d PHP154 million under the “Pablo Rehabilitation Fund”. The project started in 2014 initiated by former the former governor now first district Representative Corazon Malanyaon. Deloso said that after the typhoon damaged the bridge it was immediately repaired but was washed out in 2014 when a low pressure area “Agaton” hit the area. The residents in San Pedro, Deloso said, endured many years of crossing the river using wooden fishing boats as a mode of transportation. Deloso said the bridge is now structurally by the Department of Public works and Highways (DPWH) to adapt to the changes in climate conditions. With the completion of the bridge, Deloso said the residents, especially the children in the villages of Pakahon, Tubod, Boa, and Batiano across the Caraga River can now travel and market their produce easily. Government services can also reach the villages. According to Deloso, the village farmers living across the river are overwhelmed by the breakthrough project which they say will help cut transportation time and cost. Malanyaon described the bridge as a symbol of the people’s unity and the convergence of all agencies of the government. This shows that the provincial government commitment that no one is left behind in terms of development. PNA
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biomass-fed furnace, outdoor storage technology, pneumatic corn planter, improved corn sheller, maize aflatoxin control system, integrated pest management system and village-type compact corn mill. For high value crops, PhilMech has developed the multi-commodity solar tunnel dryer, whole cashew kernel sheller, cashew charcoal-fired oven, manual coffee pulper, cassava digger, cassava belt-dryer, soybean sorter, agricultural tramline system, coffee postharvest and processing system and the soybean postharvest and processing system. Estigoy underscored the importance of shifting to mechanized farming as this will improve efficiency on use of resource, increase productivity, reduce losses and value-adding. He noted the magnitude of postharvest loss in palay. The average contribution of milling loss is 34 percent and
drying with 36 percent to the total postharvest losses. While there are advantages of mechanized agriculture, Estigoy said there are also constraints like the high capital investment for the machines and lack of loan and credit to support the farmers. There is also the labor displacement since the country has cheap and abundant supply of labor and lack of livelihood programs to generate small rural enterprises and employment. Estigoy, however, stressed that there are also assistance from government by providing facilities like the multi-purpose pavements for drying, tramline system and mechanical dryers. As to farm labor, Estigoy said the government is looking at the possibility of also mechanizing farm service. Estigoy said there are other interventions. The government is providing avenue to pump-prime the agriculture sector with the involvement of the private sector to encourage to invest more in the production of machinery given that PhilMech has no mandate to mass produce machines. PNA
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and economy of the area. “While all these infrastructure projects are pending completion, the Port of Cagayan de Oro is continually innovating and seeking temporary alternative processes to address the impact on vessel traffic congestion by delineating berth spaces for priority vessels, infusion of additional modern port machineries and equipment, implemented the observance of load cut-off time, and installation of AIS technology for safety, security and advance planning on berth allocation,” Butaslac said. “The port’s marketing viability has grown as existing shipping lines considered plying new routes and deployment of additional vessels; Cokaliong and Fiesta Shipping are increasing ship calls to daily; Meridian Shipping now ships its containers here, as have Lorenzo and National Maritime Corp (NMC).” Seems Cagayan de Oro PMO will just have to raise the bar further in the name of progress.
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