A Court of Appeals division has invalidated the environmental compliance certificate (ECC) issued by the government to a firm planning to build a P56-billion, 600-megawatt power plant in Subic, Zambales. Apart from nullifying the December 2008 ECC issued to Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc (RP Energy), the CA 15th Division also struck down two subsequent amendements […]
CA strikes down ECC, deal on Subic power plant
May 29th, 2013 | Comments Off on CA strikes down ECC, deal on Subic power plant »HAND PUMP DISTRIBUTION
May 29th, 2013 | Comments Off on HAND PUMP DISTRIBUTION »Six (6) indigenous people’s communities in Zambales received hand pump for water supply from PREDA. The beneficiaries of this assistance projects are the communities of PAPAHT, Cadmang, Reserva, Baculi, LAKAS and Cabuyao. Many more will be distributed with lengths of pipe and cement to supply clean drinking water and end the spread of disease in […]
VISIT TO A MANGO HARVEST
May 28th, 2013 | Comments Off on VISIT TO A MANGO HARVEST »by Fr. Shay Cullen A few weeks ago, I was in the mountain villages of Zambales talking to a group of small subsistence farmers from the Aeta indigenous people. The agriculturists from the Preda Fair Trade project were there to help them gather and weigh their wild mangos and Preda Fair Trade staff were ready to pay them 100% […]
THE SILENCED SCREAMS
May 23rd, 2013 | Comments Off on THE SILENCED SCREAMS »By Fr. Shay Cullen Rachelle, when she was just 13 years old, suffered in silence and isolation. Like most children in the world, she turned into herself and at that young age, having being certified mentally challenged with a mental age of a 9 year-old, she felt totally helpless to change or prevent what adults more powerful and knowledgeable did to […]
CAMPAIGN ASKING SAINSBURY’S TO STOCK PREDA DRIED MANGOS ONCE AGAIN.
May 21st, 2013 | Comments Off on CAMPAIGN ASKING SAINSBURY’S TO STOCK PREDA DRIED MANGOS ONCE AGAIN. »Dear friends of Preda , customers of Preda dried mangos are writing lettered like this to Sainsbury’s please send your letter of support to: Customer Care Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Ltd 33 Holborn London EC1N 2HT A Customer writes ‘I am very disappointed to learn that Sainsbury’s has recently stopped stocking PREDA/Forest Feast dried mangos, which […]
