Mindanao Daily News (April 3, 2013 Issue)

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Damaged NGCP steel tower triggers 16-hour power outage in Surigao del Norte SURIGAO CITY (MindaNew) – A damaged 69-kilovolt (kV) steel tower of the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines (NGCP) triggered a 16-hour power interruption in this city and several areas in Surigao del Norte since 8:15 p.m. Monday.

Power supply was restored at around 12:15 p.m. Tuesday in the coverage area of the Surigao del Norte Electric Cooperative, Inc. (Surneco). In an advisory this morning, Surneco said a destroyed 69-kV steel tower of NGCP located in Barangay Mabini

here caused the power blackout. Engr. Alex Diaz, Surneco maintenance engineer, said that NGCP crewmen have been deployed to repair the transmission tower that was discovered destroyed at around 3 a.m. Tuesday. “This tower is the main source [of power] so it will really affect all our lines in the city and yes, the province,” Diaz said. Quoting a text message from the NGCP crewmen, he said one of the posts of the tower was destroyed when a “length of rope tied to it, probably that ofa carabao, pulled off the anchor guy.” The “anchor guy” is the bunting or rope that is tied to a tower to ensure

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Brownouts on election day feared April 3, 2013

A LAWMAKER has expressed concern that the power crisis in Mindanao could be artificial and orchestrated even as she expressed concern that people are being conditioned that there will be brownouts in Mindanao come Election Day. Rep. Luzviminda Ilagan (Party-list, Gabriela) said there are more than 15 million voters in Mindanao

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Mindanao power crisis: Inaction or orchestration?- solon and many of whom could be disenfranchised if the power crisis is not resolved immediately. At the same time, Ilagan said the eight-hour daily brownouts now happening in the region could have been averted had the government listened and acted

on the warnings given by the energy agency. “The Department of Energy has been giving warnings of a power crisis for several years now, yet no concrete action has been taken towards giving Mindanaoans cheaper, safer brownouts | page 11

Senatorial candidate Cynthia Villar (middle) with (From left) Datu Makaban, regional federation president of irrigators in Region 10, Datu Michael Kida, president of Mindanao Confederation of Irrigators’ Association, Samuel Carampatan, regional federation president of irrigators in Caraga region and, Saturnino Simbahon, regional federation president of irrigators in Region 11. Photos by SHAUN ALEJANDRAE YAP UY

Villar vows to pass legislation Goking to subsidize farmers if elected tops survey TOWER | page 4

By GERRY LEE GORIT

CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY - Former city councilor Alfonso Goking, who is running for another term in the city council of Cagayan de Oro, has topped the latest survey conducted by the RMN network for the second district of the city. goking | page 4

FORMER Las Piñas Representative Cynthia Villar, who is running for senator under the NP-Team PNoy, has vowed to legislate government subsidy for farmers should she make it to the Senate come May polls. This, she announced following her classification of her priorities, namely, ag r ic u lture, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), women and family, education, livelihood and jobs. “Since 70 percent of

poor Filipinos are in the agriculture sector, the government should subsidize our farmers. Any development in the agricultural sector will reflect on our economy,” Villar told close to 300 farmers and irrigators who attended the First Mindanao-Wide General Assembly and election of the Mindanao Confederation of Irrigators Association, Inc. (MINCIA), Tuesday, April 02, 2013, at Chali Beach Resort in Cugman, Cagayan de Oro City. If elected, Villar also

vowed to push for a review of the Agriculture and Fisheries Modernization Act (AFMA). “The requirements of our poor farmers have not been met until now. If I win in the May elections, I will work for efficient and modern post –harvest facilities, farm inputs and irrigation systems for our farmers and irrigators,” she told the delegates from all over Mindanao who were gathered here. For now, Villar

elected | page 11

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