NP-NPC-LDP vice presidential candidate Loren Legarda today urged government and the NDCC to beef up its disaster-preparedness and response systems, and warned Filipinos to be always prepared for natural calamities.
“Let’s not wait for the next disaster to strike our shores. We’ve seen enough, let’s do more to prepare. It’s not enough that we have capable [...]

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 [...]

Nationalist People’s Coalition (NPC), Nacionalista Party (NP) and Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino (LDP) vice presidential bet Senator Loren Legarda today lamented the great injustice suffered by the country’s poorest, saying that “they contribute least to the problem (of climate change) yet they bear and suffer most from the impact.”
“Those most vulnerable to climate change today [...]

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 [...]

Senator Loren Legarda, chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and food, said there is a need to fully support and develop the local vegetable industry to enhance the productivity of vegetable farmers and enable them to compete with their counterparts in developed countries.
At the same time, Loren lauded the efforts of vegetable growers in [...]

Senator Loren Legarda urged the National Food Authority (NFA) to strictly observe bidding rules and transparency in the controversial tariff-free rice importation program being implemented by the agency amid complaints of alleged irregularities in the awarding of permits.
The program involves the tax-free importation of 200,000 metric tons of rice to be allocated to importers from [...]