RESIDENTS of Urdaneta City were up in arms over what they deemed as sloppy routine inspection of the Servo-Treat Philippines Inc. waste treatment facility in Barangay Pinmaludpod by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR). Residents earlier filed a complaint citing the malodorous air emanating from the facility only…

THE impending offshore large-scale mining activities in the Lingayen Gulf is in conflict with Presidential Proclamation No.156 issued by then President Fidel V. Ramos in 1993 that proclaimed the entire Lingayen Gulf as an environmentally critical area. This was the contention of Second District Board Member Von Mark Mendoza during…

THE provincial government had nothing to do with the impending large-scale offshore mining in the Lingayen Gulf to be undertaken by the Iron Ore and Vanadium Resources Philippines Inc. This was clarified by the Sangguniang Panlalawigan belying suspicions that it was the provincial government that initiated the project. Fourth District…

AFTER PAYING P100 DAILY TO CITY HALL THE small fish vendors that were recently allowed to sell under brand new tents along the sidewalk of a backstreet in front of the Magsaysay Fish Market but were told they can only sell for 3 hours trooped back to the Sangguniang Panlungsod…

GOV. Amado Espino III signed on Sept. 24 a P500-M loan agreement with Land Bank of the Philippines, the bulk of which will be used for the procurement of palay to help  marginalized farmers free themselves from the strangle-hold of rice traders. Farmers have since complained to extremely low buying…

JOINT forces from the Department of Trade and Industry-Pangasinan (DTI) and the National Bureau of Investigation-Dagupan District Office (NBI-DADO), raided a medical oxygen refilling station in Barangay Minien East, Sta. Barbara on Thursday afternoon, September 30. The raid was prompted by a report that the ORO Oxygen Corporation in Sta….