PHNO-HL BENGUET TOWNS BAN PLASTIC / WEST VISAYAS BRACES FOR OIL PRICE HIKE

BENGUET TOWNS BAN PLASTIC / WEST VISAYAS BRACES
FOR OIL PRICE HIKE

BENGUET, JULY 16, 2012 (MANILA TIMES) To help protect the environment and bring to end the use of use
of plastic bags, the municipal council of this fruit producing town is
considering passage of an Anti-Plastics ordinance.
Councilor Roger Sito said the measure mandates all persons engaged in
business within the municipality to minimize the use of plastic bags,
cellophane, styro foam for wrapping, covering, packaging or bagging of goods.

'We encourage the use of alternative eco-friendly packing or bagging
materials like paper bags and "bayongs" (native woven bags), native baskets,
cloth bags (katsa), paper bags or pouches, non-plastic sacks, sturdy reusable
shopping bags and biodegradable bags, he said. GABY B. KEITH


[PHOTO -Halsema highway leads you to other municipalities of
Benguet]
LA TRINIDAD, Benguet: Determined to support and maintain the cleanliness
along the Halsema Highway, four local government units covering the stretch of
the highway came up with a common agreement for the passage of a measure banning
the use of plastic sando bags and styrofoams in their own towns.
In a meeting of the Mt. Trail Inter Local Health Zone (ILHZ) Board, member
municipalities namely Atok, Bakun, Buguias, and Mankayan including chiefs of
hospitals of Abatan Emergency Hospital and Atok District Hospital passed a
resolution requesting the member towns of ILHZ to enact an ordinance banning the
use of plastic sando bags and styrofoams in their respective towns.
Resolution No. 6 series 2011 was signed by the local chief executive of Atok,
Mayor Peter Alos; Bakun, Mayor Marcelo Contada; Buguias, Mayor Melchor Diclas;
Mankayan, Mayor Materno Luspian; and Mt Trail ILHZ co-chairpersons Abatan
Emergency Hospital Chief of Hospital Dr. Joseph Giovanni Frias and Atok District
Hospital Chief of Hospital Dr. Nora Ruiz.
Apart from vegetable wastes found dumped along the highway, one of the many
sources of wastes are styrofoams and plastic sando bags which have widely
proliferated in the towns. Plastics and styrofoams are known to be environmental
hazards which may cause health problems in the long run.
West Visayas braces for next oil price spirals
Published on 13 July 2012 Hits: 255 Written by Lydia C. Pendon
ILOILO CITY: The high demand for oil in the entire country is pushing
the volatile oil prices up as augmented by the low refinery output in Batangas.
This will cover the supply and demand of oil in Western Visayas as disclosed by
Director Zenaida Monsada of the Department of Energy Oil Industry Management
Bureau.
Monsada and DOE Visayas Director Antonio Labios were in Iloilo Thursday, to
conduct a multi-sectoral advocacy campaign in collaboration with the Philippine
Information Agency (PIA) on the downstream oil industry regarding provisions of
Republic Act 8479.
Monsada said the national law or the Downstream Oil Industry Deregulation Act
of 1998 hopes to ensure a competitive market under a regime of fair prices,
adequate and continuous supply of environmentally clean and high quality
petroleum products.
She admitted that the DOE is affected by the looming people's action against
oil price hike and talks of a pro-oil cartel administration but explained the
volatile movement of international oil prices is brought about by geo-political
concerns and speculations in the world market
The DOE official disclosed that the refinery output in Batangas is pushing
the high oil imports which are not enough to cover the demand for oil in the
country. Metro Manila and Luzon areas are the most oil demanding followed by
Mindanao and the Visayas.
The Batangas facilities refine imported crude oil into liquefied petroleum
gas (LPG), premium and regular gas, aviation turbo, kerosene, diesel and fuel
oil.
Diesel fuel is the most in demand gas by the transport sector and the demand
is almost two times than that of gasoline. The demand is some 75 percent in
Metro Manila and Luzon. However, the refined supply is only 69,000 barrels per
day (bpd) of diesel as compared to the demand of 122,000 bpd.
Other refined supply are 55,000 on premium gas; 35,000 on LPG; 34,000 on
aviation turbo high octane gas; 12,000 on regular gas; and 3,000 on kerosene.

The national demand covers 25,000 bpd on premium gas; 12,000 on LPG; 36,000
fuel oil; 17,000 aviation turbo; 10,000 regular gas; and 2,000 on kerosene.
Monsada clarified that the top oil producers in the world are Saudi Arabia,
Russia, United States, China, Iran, Canada, Mexico, United Arab Emirate, Brazil,
Nigeria. Kuwait, Iraq, Venezuela, Norway and Algeria.
The net oil exporters are Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, UAE, Norway, Kuwait,
Nigeria, Angola, Algeria, Iraq, Venezuela, Libya, Kazakhastan, Canada and Qatar.
US and China are not considered as oil exporters as their local demand is much
higher than supply.
The Philippine government owes the oil companies some P17 billion under the
Oil Price Sta-bilization Fund (OPFS) and the rate of return of investments oil
companies in the Philippines is much lower in the deregulated period than the
regulated period, Monsada added.


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