NEWS BRIEFS
COUNCIL STILL AGAINST CIUDAD
THE Cebu City Council continues to oppose the implementation of the provincial government’s Ciudad project in the city’s northern corridor.
Vice Mayor Joy Augustus Young said councilors will take action against the planning office’s issuance of a locational clearance for the project which they see as a violation of the city’s zoning ordinance.
“The council will do something but we will not say what. They themselves issued a legal opinion in silence,” Young said, referring to the city’s lawyers.
Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia welcomed the issuance of a locational clearance for Ciudad.
“Why all the furor over one project that Cebuanos obviously want, will bring in more revenues and based on the traffic plan presented in fact decongest the present traffic situation?” Garcia said. CHIEF OF REPORTERS DORIS C. BONGCAC AND DAY DESK COORDINATOR DALE G. ISRAEL
BOGO’S NATURAL GAS POWER
AN additional 1.5-megawatt natural gas power plant will operate in Bogo City next month.
Assistant Energy Secretary Ramon Allan Oca said other portions of the City aside from fields in barangay Libertad where the new power plant is located, also show signs of presence of natural gas.
The plant constructed by Forum Power will be operated by Desco Systems which will sell power to Cebu Electic Cooperative II (Cebeco II).
Oca and other energy officials met with Cebu Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia yesterday at the Capitol for updates on the newly commissioned plant.
Oca said that the power will have no difference in terms of costs to residents from what they are paying at present.
“But this will be cleaner (in terms of emissions) because it is natural gas,” Oca said. DAY DESK COORDINATOR DALE G. ISRAEL
NEW MANDAUE MARKET LEASE RIGHTS
THE Mandaue Vendors Cooperative (MVC) and Mandaue City Vendors Association (MCVA) yesterday asked City Hall for lease rights of 10 instead of five years as proposed by the city’s public market authority.
Market Administrator Musoline Suliva said the market authority will deliberate on the vendors’ request since lease rights, which were not imposed in the old market, are new to them.
MVC head Pilipinas Arresgado and MCVA head Cristina Mosqueda said they want to stay in the old market in barangay Centro until December and move to the new one next year. REPORTER JUCELL MARIE P. CUYOS
