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- Iloilo City registers minors aged 12 to 17 for Covid vaccination
- Iloilo City pocket forests up along floodway
- Philreca opposes franchise expansion of More Power in Iloilo
| Iloilo City registers minors aged 12 to 17 for Covid vaccination Posted: 29 Sep 2021 03:41 AM PDT THE Iloilo City Government has started registering 12- to 17-year-olds with their school identification (ID) cards or Parent's or Guardian's Consent for vaccines administration starting October once the National Task Force Against Covid-19 gives a go-signal anytime. Forms will be available in barangays, business establishments and registration areas in malls and booths. The metropolis has so far registered last week 4,000 out of the target 50,000 residents aged 12 to 17. Mayor Jerry Treñas said the city vaccination teams will be preparing the process for vaccination of minors to start once Pfizer and Moderna supplies from the national government arrive. These two brands have so far been approved for use to teens by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Sinovac has also asked the FDA for approval on its use for children. The Department of Health noted that Covid infections among children are on the rise. (PR)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Iloilo City pocket forests up along floodway Posted: 29 Sep 2021 03:31 AM PDT ILOILO City's Pocket Forests are now growing in several areas particularly along Jaro floodway adopting the Miyawaki method. An area of 8 meters x 55 meters (440 square meters) planted with various indigenous species, including fruit-bearing trees. "We continue to cultivate more sites," Executive Assistant for Environment Armando Dayrit said. "The area in the floodway is becoming an illegal dumping site of people throwing their garbage. We have to clear it and warn people the floodway is not a garbage dumping place," Dayrit added. (PR)  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Philreca opposes franchise expansion of More Power in Iloilo Posted: 29 Sep 2021 12:40 AM PDT THE Philippine Rural Electric Cooperatives Association Inc. (Philreca) opposed the franchise expansion of More Electric and Power Corporation (More Power) to 15 towns outside Iloilo City. In its position letter sent to First District Representative Franz Alvarez, chairperson of the Committee on Legislative Franchises of the House of Representatives, dated September 28, 2021, Philreca said it is opposing House Bill 10271, which was introduced by Iloilo Representatives Michael Gorriceta (Second District) and Braeden John Biron (Fourth District). House Bill 10271 seeks to extend the franchise of More Power to 15 towns outside Iloilo City. Gorriceta and Biron filed the bill following concerns of their constituents on high electricity rates in the franchise areas of Iloilo I Electric Cooperative Inc. (Ileco I), Iloilo II Electric Cooperative Inc. (Ileco II), and Iloilo III Electric Cooperative Inc. (Ileco III). The bill will amend Republic Act (RA) 11212, which allows More Power to expand and enable to establish, operate, and maintain, for commercial purposes and in the public interest, the distribution system of the 15 towns comprising the Second and Fourth Districts of Iloilo Province. RA 11212, signed on February 14, 2019, grants More Power a distribution utility franchise for Iloilo City. Lawyer Janeene Colingan, executive director and general manager of Philreca, said their opposition on the amendment is anchored on the following: * The areas being added to the franchise of More Power are already being served by Ileco I, II and III. Granting More Power a legislative franchise to operate in these areas would be a violation of RA 9136, or the Electric Power Industry Reform Act of 2001 (Epira), and RA 638, or the National Electrification Administration Act. * The premise that "More Power has reduced electric rates in Iloilo City from one of the highest in the country to one of the lowest in the country" is not only without context but this is actually flawed. * In the long run, More cannot offer cheaper and more affordable electricity and energy cost in the areas being added; instead, it will only charge the consumers a higher rate. * Barking up the wrong tree: Differences in consumer's power rates are primarily due to generation cost, not distribution cost. "We hope that that above concerns are enough for the committee to consider that expanding the franchise of More to cover areas already being served by electric cooperatives will not benefit the public. At best, it would only result to higher most of electricity," Colingan said in the letter. The 15 towns that will be part of the amendment are Alimodian, Leganes, Leon, New Lucena, Pavia, San Miguel, Santa Barbara, and Zarraga, all in the Second District of Iloilo; and Anilao, Banate, Barotac Nuevo, Dingle, Duenas, Dumangas and San Enrique and the City of Passi, all in the Fourth District of Iloilo. These towns are currently served by Ileco I, Ileco II, and Ileco III. In September 2021, More Power was able to lower its electrical rate from P6.4 per kilowatt hour in July to P6.38 per kilowatt hour.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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