The current electrical power crisis would not have hit the country if the Arroyo administration had not been so preoccupied with trying to hold on to political power, NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda said on Monday, following reports of the power situation in Northern Luzon.
“And what is the Energy secretary doing now? He’s busy [...]

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 [...]

Following the 8.8 magnitude earthquake that struck in the Pacific Ocean and devastated Chile, vice presidential bet for Nationalist  People’s Coalition (NPC), Nacionalista Party (NP) and Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) Loren Legarda today called on government to mobilize local contingency efforts and prepare for any possibility of a tsunami.
“Although there is no evacuation order [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

“If you can produce money for politics, you can produce money for food.”
This is the challenge posed by Nacionalista Party vice presidential candidate, Loren Legarda to Malacañang.
“What has this administration been in power for?’ Loren said on Saturday, shortly after her return to Manila from campaign sorties in the Visayas with running mate Manny Villar.
In [...]