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Volume IX, No. 158 After airstrike, govt troops scour Madamba-Madalum mountain ranges By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
ILIGAN City--After four bombs dropped past 7 a.m. on Saturday (November 23) by the FA 50 jet in the mountain ranges of Madalum and Madamba town in Lanao del Sur, the military is now scouring the area to confirm reports of residents that there are members of Dawlah Islamiya (DI) Lanao group training in the area. Colonel Jose Maria Cuerpo, commander of the Army’s 103rd Infantry Brigade, said their combat operations started in November 10, when civilians in the area informed the military of the temporary camps, made of blue “trapal,” are built in the area. The combat operation going to the area resulted to the seizure of subversive documents along the way that include the recovery of the identification card and documents of motorcycle of Staff Sergeant Lito Polines, a personnel of the Army’s 553rd Engineer Battalion who was shot dead in Barnagay Basak Malutlut, Marawi City in October 7. The military has also discovered black flaglets with See TROOPS, page 11
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of 39,180 grams of dried marijuana leaves, 4.8 kilograms of shabu or crystal meth, 2.1 ml or shabu liquid and 17 pills of ecstacy. These were already used as evidence of more than 500 cases filed and promulgated in different courts in Northern Mindanao
COAL expansion by the Philippines’ biggest energy companies will hinder the country’s transition to a low carbon future, and can lock the country into at least two more decades of overreliance on fossil fuels, environmental group Greenpeace said today in a press conference. In a briefing paper, the group detailed how four of the country’s biggest energy companies—San Miguel Corporation (SMC); Aboitiz & Co., Inc. (Aboitiz); Meralco PowerGen Corporation (Mgen); and DMCI Holdings, Inc. (DMCI)—are set to substantially increase their coal portfolios, more than doubling the country’s current coal capacity should all their proposed coal projects push through. Because they account for more than half of the current and proposed power projects in the country, the shares of energy sources in their portfolios will be crucial in determining whether or not the country can comply with the low-carbon development path needed to address the global climate crisis. “Clearly, the Philippine energy outlook is far from the clean energy scenario,” said Khevin Yu, campaigner of Greenpeace Philippines. “While the rest of the world
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Coal gathered from the shores of Quirino, Bacnotan in La Union, after tons of coal spilled from the nearby Holcim cement factory. photo supplied
PDEA-Normin destroys illegal drugs used as evidence in court By DIVINA M. SUSON Correspondent
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LUGAIT, Misamis Oriental--The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) in Northern Mindanao destroyed on Friday (November 23) the P44.6 million worth of dangerous drugs that the drug agency seized during their law
enforcement operations in the region from March 2019. The destruction was done inside a burning facility called Keln of the Holcim Plant in Lugait Misamis Oriental using not less than 600 degrees Celsius heat. Wilkins Villanueva, director of PDEA 10, the drugs are composed