Category: Environment

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Haiyan (Yolanda) comprehensive rehab plan implemented under Duterte after delays due to Aquino admin snub

June 23, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Remember Typhoon Haiyan, a.k.a. Yolanda in 2013? The most powerful supertyphoon to hit the country during the Aquino administration? Much of the blame for the bungled rehabilitation, recovery and reconstruction efforts post-Yolanda was borne by Sen. Panfilo Lacson, who was appointed by then President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino as Presidential Assistant for Rehabilitation and Recovery. As…

Environment, Government, History

Hyper-politicised energy sector dooms Filipinos to chronic energy shortage

June 4, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 4 Comments

Interesting that Boo Chanco makes no mention of the elephant in the room; the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). This, considering how, in his PhilSTAR piece today “Power failure” he writes about what he calls “the big elephant in the room” which comes in the form of the question, “how much energy capacity do we…

Business, Economy, Environment

March 1, 2020 was the start of the “new normal”

March 1, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

It’s been roughly 12 months since the world shut down. March 2020 is the month that divides the “pre-COVID” and “post-COVID” worlds. When we were in the midst of frantically putting up daily situation reporting to keep our executive management on top of a world changing by the day as the pandemic bore down upon…

Business, Environment, Lifestyle, Society

The crisis we knew had to come

January 4, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

People march back into their respective workplaces ready to face the New Year once again like they always have. Whether this New Year will be a better one is a favourite subject of debate specially now that everything’s changed. While it may seem that humanity is in the cusp of a “solution” to the crisis…

Economy, Environment

Opposition disappointed as #RollyPH (Typhoon Goni) leaves the Philippines relatively unscathed

November 1, 2020 benign0 1 Comment

Once again the Philippine Opposition’s prayers were left unanswered as Typhoon Goni (codenamed “Rolly” in the Philippines) passes relatively harmlessly. Like most typhoons plowing through the Philippines, Rolly left a trail of destruction of the sort regarded as normal by most Filipinos. But it was nothing like the catastrophe Opposition partisans were hoping for, and…

Environment, Politics

#RollyPH landfall expected to result in “catastrophic” destruction

November 1, 2020November 1, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

As of this writing super-typhoon Goni (codenamed “Rolly” in the Philippines) hit land in Bato, Catanduanes in the Philippines’ east coast. The storm is packing winds of 225 kph accompanied by 280 kph gusts. It is moving southwest at 25 kph in the direction of Mindoro island. According to projections issued by the Philippine Atmospheric,…

Environment

Taal volcano eruption not a “tragedy” but being UNPREPARED for natural disasters is

January 15, 2020January 15, 2020 Ilda 9 Comments

A volcanic eruption is not a tragedy in itself. Tragedy strikes when people and animals get caught in it. But I heard most people who live in the vicinity of Taal volcano which erupted this week are safe because they managed to evacuate on time. Of course there could me more explosions that could be…

Environment, Government

Filipinos too paralysed by partisanism and superstition to implement modern disaster relief

November 2, 2019December 21, 2021 benign0 10 Comments

In the aftermath of yet another devastating “natural” disaster — this time an earthquake hitting southern Mindanao — Filipinos are again exhibiting the lack of decisive and deliberate fast action required to deliver timely relief to its victims. Much of the action being instigated by local governments are the usual appeal for aid from the…

Environment, Science