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Jot down another victory for all the anti-coal advocates out there. Clean energy and consumers rights group Power for People Coalition (P4P) hailed on Wednesday, April 28 the cancellation of the 600-megawatt (MW) Subic coal plant project listed under Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc. (RP Energy), call
By TED CORDERO, GMA News Published April 28, 2021 7:51pm The Power for People Coalition (P4P) on Wednesday lauded the cancellation of an energy consortium’s plan to put up a 660-megawatt coal fired power plant in Subic, Zambales. In a statement, P4P said Redondo Peninsula Energy Inc., a joint venture between Meralco’s generation arm Meralco PowerGen, Aboitiz Power Corporation, and Taiwan Cogeneration Corp., has said it will no longer pursue the coal-fired plant project. The consortium has announced that it will move away from coal and is reserving the site for a possible gas projec...
Protests continue against model road project Updated: Updated: Share Article AAA A day after the Coimbatore Corporation issued a detailed clarification on Tuesday saying that it had not cut trees, covered greenery with concrete and attempted to destroy the beauty of Race Course in executing the model road project, protests continued on Wednesday morning. In the clarification the Corporation had also said that those levelling allegations that it had cut trees had no proof, it had only removed shrubs, it was only improving upon the walkers’ path, it was redesigning junctions to regulate veh...
Coimbatore: ‘Save Race Course’, a petition launched by a group of residents and environmentalists on change.org, has amassed 2,500 supporters in 24 hours. The group wants the city corporation to stop the Smart City project being taken up in the area, share the project plan with the public and form a consensus, before going ahead. The e-petition was launched after 70 trees were removed for the project and Thomas Park, which had some rare shrubs, was razed to the ground, said R Mohammed Saleem, president of the Environment Conservation Group. “They also removed three traffic islands — o...
Shifting the marine economic model in the coastal district of Can Gio towards ecological environment conservation and humanity would be a breakthrough of the city, according to the official. At the workshop (Photo: VNA) There is an evitable need for HCM City to turn itself into a hub of finance and commercial services of regional and international standards, he said. Dr. Nguyen Duc Hien, deputy head of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, said Vietnam has a coastline of more than 3,600km, covering 28 out of 63 cities and provinces. The coastal localities make up 58.2 perce...