Online and offline, this Aklan village fights a wind farm to save their river
A windmill project threatens villagers in Malay, Aklan, who are mounting a strong resistance at the local council and on social media to defend their livelihood
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A windmill project threatens villagers in Malay, Aklan, who are mounting a strong resistance at the local council and on social media to defend their livelihood
Ma. Stella F. Arnaldo / Special to the BusinessMirror THE Sangguniang Bayan (SB) of Malay on Friday voted to adopt the proposed Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program of PetroWind Energy Inc., which wants to expand its wind-farm project, that many businesses and locals view will affect Boracay Island’s main water…
Stella Arnaldo SUSTAINABILITY is the buzzword of today’s post-modern world, as governments and companies try to adopt measures to push development without sacrificing natural resources which will still be used by generations to come. In fact, it was “sustainability” that supposedly guided the Philippine government in deciding to close Boracay…
The Boracay Foundation Inc. (BFI) has passed a resolution that forbids the construction of wind turbines in the proposed 14-megawatt (MW) Nabas-2 wind power project (Nabas-2) of PetroWind Energy Inc. (PWEI). PWEI is the joint venture between Yuchengco Group of Companies’ PetroEnergy Resources Corp. (20 percent) and its subsidiary, PetroGreen…
Protesters call on local officials not to give a planned wind farm expansion project the green light, saying its construction poses irreversible damage to the Nabaoy River