SURIGAO CITY - El Niño has threatened to slow down the progress of Surigao City, an otherwise fast developing trade and industry hub in the Caraga region, with four-hour daily brownouts caused by the low-water level at Maria Cristina Falls, the region’s source of hydroelectric power.
“Unless the Arroyo administration does something about [...]

Senator Loren Legarda urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) and the Bureau of Agriculture and Fisheries Resources (BFAR) to immediately implement measures, including the release of funds, to minimize the damage of the El Nino phenomenon to the fishery sector.
Loren sounded the call as she was alarmed by the report of fish kills and red [...]

PANGASINAN — Concerned of the depreciating quality of vegetable and fruit crops in Pangasinan, NPC-NP-LDP Vice-Presidential candidate and UN Regional Champion for International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Loren Legarda raised her calls for mitigating the rising El Nino phenomenon in the country. “Remember Ondoy and Pepeng? This, now, is the extreme opposite of those tragedies,” [...]

Vice presidential bet for Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), Nacionalista Party (NP) and Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) Loren Legarda today raised the alarm for government’s local fisheries units to monitor the water situation against fishkill which has already hit Ifugao and Isabela.
She also warned against possible red tide in Pangasinan, which she visits today in [...]

Visiting Pangasinan in one of her campaign sorties, NPC-NP-LDP vice presidential bet Loren Legarda called for a decade-long planning and massive education drive to allow the country to cope with the seasonal El Nino crisis.
“Government policies on El Nino should not just be reactionary. We have to think long term in addressing environmental and climate [...]

With the country in the midst of El Niño, Senator Loren Legarda hailed rice farmers as “our true silent heroes” for upholding the agricultural sector with a projected rice production of 17.4 million metric tons despite the El Niño dry spell.
“The nation and our people owe them a lot. We should bestow on our outstanding [...]

“Why should every situation for this administration be an emergency?” Nacionalista Party vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda said on Sunday in reaction to reports that some lawmakers are considering granting the President emergency powers to combat the effects of El Nino.
“Many of our so-called emergencies would not have caught the administration off guard if only [...]

“Slowly but surely the destruction of El Nino has been spreading throughout the land,” Nacionalista Party vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda noted on Sunday. “It’s time for this administration to start setting up measures and for the nexT one to follow up in their implementation to combat drought, power shortage, and the food crisis brought [...]

“The government keeps on assuring us that the looming brownouts in Mindanao have no political basis. But can you blame people for being suspicious, particularly with elections just a few months away?”
That was the question of Nacionalista Party vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda as she arrived on Saturday in Manila from her Visayas campaign.
“I say [...]

Loren Legarda, chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and food, today called for the crafting and adoption of a long-termcomprehensive plan for El Niño mitigation saying that it is essential to the country’s social and economic well-being.
“This long-term plan should include measures that are integrated in regular government programs directed to various sectors of [...]