Letter to the editor
Monday, October 27, 2008
Executive Order Nos. 9, released by Gov. Gwen Garcia ordering the Department of Energy and its cohorts in destroying our marine environment and dislocating the rights of fisherfolk to stop its destructive activities, is nevertheless a victory.

An International Fact-Finding Mission (IFFM) today declared that it found overwhelming evidence that off-shore mining exploration activities of foreign transnational companies in marine biodiversity centers in Central Visayas,  Philippines violates the social, economic, and cultural rights of thousands of fisherfolk and encroaches upon the country’s national patrimony and sovereignty.

By Ma. Bernadette A. Parco
Cebu Daily News
First Posted 08:51:00 10/23/2008


A fact-finding monitoring team composed of non-government organizations (NGO) from Asian countries called on the national government to end oil exploration activities in the Visayas.

Given lackluster appetite of private investors, state-run Philippine National Oil Company-Exploration Corporation (PNOC-EC) is taking the risk of putting up the country’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility.