SAN ROQUE DAM DECOMMISSIONING SOUGHT Justice Regino leads complainants A GROUP of lawyers in Pangasinan has taken the lead in filing a class suit against the National Power Corporation (NPC) and the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC), the operators of the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam in San Manuel town, in…

SAN MANUEL–The move to make San Roque Dam and National Power Corporation (NPC) and its officers accountable for the massive flooding in the province further gains momentum.

SAN MANUEL–Easier said than done. Tommy Valdez, vice president for corporate social responsibility of the San Roque Power Corporation (SRPC), said this in response to the clamor for the decommissioning of the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam Project by the government.

SRMP’S IRRIGATION COMPONENT IN 2013 SAN MANUEL–After the flood in October that completely swamped many farms in the province, local farmers can begin to look more positively at the San Roque Multi-Purpose Dam Project with the expected completion of the construction of the re-regulating pond component for irrigation in four…

LINGAYEN–New hand-held radios and wireless telephones were distributed to Pangasinan’s 1,333 barangay kapitans and the police chiefs of the 44 towns and three cities on Tuesday by the provincial government.

BETTER safe than sorry. This is the stance of members of the Dagupan city council and agreed to incorporate a ‘dam-break’ scenario in the city’s emergency evacuation plan despite assurances from San Roque Dam officials that a dam-break will be a “very, very remote possibility”.