Friday, August 2, 2013
PENRO targets 6,550 hectares to be planted with fruit trees in OrMin
CALAPAN CITY, Oriental Mindoro, July 26 (PIA) -- The Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) here is targeting this year a total of 6,550 hectares of land to be planted with assorted species of fruit trees and forest tree species province wide.
According to Mary June F. Maypa, Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Officer of Oriental Mindoro, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is tasked to lead the Aquino Administration’s priority thrust – the National Greening Program (NGP).
She said this program has a goal of planting 1.5 billion trees in 1.5 million hectares nationwide in the period of six years of its implementation.
NGP is also an economic program since it complements the Department of Agriculture (DA)’s goal of achieving food security and alleviation of poverty and aligned with DENR’s goal on Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, Environmental Stability and Biodiversity Conservation.
In line with this program and in partnership with the Unified Tree of Life (UTOL) program of the provincial government, employees from the local government units (LGUs), national government agencies and Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) participated in a tree planting activity in Sitio Pastuhan I in barangay Rosacara, Bansud on July 22.
NGP balances the needs of a growing community with the aims of protecting and preserving environment and its natural resources. (LBR/LTC/PIA4B/-Calapan City)
Mindoro power co-op vows to stay with NEA
The Oriental Mindoro Electric Cooperative (Ormeco) in Calapan City,
one of the best performing among the 119 electric cooperatives in the
country, will keep its 40-year registration with the National
Electrification Administration (NEA) as it thwarted attempts by some
local businessmen to transfer registration of the cooperative for
unknown reasons to the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA).
In a statement, Romeo Cuasay, Ormeco general manager, said “we believe it is to the best interest of our member-consumers to stay with the NEA.”
“We have been able to strengthen our electric cooperative and have significantly improved services and performance because of the comprehensive support system of the NEA,” said Cuasay in the statement.
Cuasay said the continuing Ormeco-NEA partnership has resulted in significant gains in the delivery of electricity to consumers. He said in the expanded sitio electrification program of President Aquino, Ormeco was able last year to electrify 274 sitios and received a presidential commendation for the achievement.
Cuasay said Ormeco has been able to achieve this despite the adverse weather condition and the regulatory challenges of power supply in the island of Mindoro.
The NEA provides administrative, financial and performance monitoring, institutional development and technical and financial assistance to electric cooperatives under Presidential Decree No. 269.
Cuasay said that one of the most important reasons Ormeco is staying with NEA is the need for administrative supervision.
In recent months, Cuasay said “there was a threat posed by a group of local businessmen who have been agitating to convert Ormeco into a CDA-registered electric cooperative for reasons that only they know.”
“It is unfortunate that the group has resorted to clandestine methods and deception to force their agenda on the duly elected board of directors to unduly alter Ormeco’s legal registration with the NEA,” Cuasay said.
As a result, Ormeco filed in October 2012 a criminal complaint of falsification of documents and estafa against the perpetrators, Cuasay said.
“We see no reason why Ormeco should get out of its registration with NEA,” Cuasay said.
In a statement, Romeo Cuasay, Ormeco general manager, said “we believe it is to the best interest of our member-consumers to stay with the NEA.”
“We have been able to strengthen our electric cooperative and have significantly improved services and performance because of the comprehensive support system of the NEA,” said Cuasay in the statement.
Cuasay said the continuing Ormeco-NEA partnership has resulted in significant gains in the delivery of electricity to consumers. He said in the expanded sitio electrification program of President Aquino, Ormeco was able last year to electrify 274 sitios and received a presidential commendation for the achievement.
Cuasay said Ormeco has been able to achieve this despite the adverse weather condition and the regulatory challenges of power supply in the island of Mindoro.
The NEA provides administrative, financial and performance monitoring, institutional development and technical and financial assistance to electric cooperatives under Presidential Decree No. 269.
Cuasay said that one of the most important reasons Ormeco is staying with NEA is the need for administrative supervision.
In recent months, Cuasay said “there was a threat posed by a group of local businessmen who have been agitating to convert Ormeco into a CDA-registered electric cooperative for reasons that only they know.”
“It is unfortunate that the group has resorted to clandestine methods and deception to force their agenda on the duly elected board of directors to unduly alter Ormeco’s legal registration with the NEA,” Cuasay said.
As a result, Ormeco filed in October 2012 a criminal complaint of falsification of documents and estafa against the perpetrators, Cuasay said.
“We see no reason why Ormeco should get out of its registration with NEA,” Cuasay said.
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