Greenpeace and the Green Renewable Independent Power Producer Inc. are joining the opposition to the power sales contract of KEPCO-Salcon Power Corp. and Central Negros Electric Cooperative, they said in a statement issued yesterday.

KEPCO-Salcon will build a 200-megawatt coal-fired power plant in Naga, Cebu to supply electricity to CENECO and other electric cooperatives in the Visayas starting 2011.

But the two groups said that coal has no place in Negros and elsewhere nowadays when the world has raised the alarm against dangerous climate change.

Food firms implement
SAI-related programs

Leading food and beverage companies in the Philippines continue to push for a Sustainable Agriculture Initiative, which is now being adapted by more firms in their production processes, a press release from Nestle Philippines Inc. said.

At a follow-up meeting recently for last year's First SAI Platform-Philippine Convention, officials of Delfi Foods Inc., Golden Arches Development Corp., Unilever Phils., and Universal Robina Corp. informed the group that they are already implementing SAI-related programs.

These include Nestle's Experimental and Demonstration Farm, Unilever's Clean Water Campaign, and Coca-Cola's PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate, a recyclable material) bottle program.

DALO protests
delay of labor cases

The Democratic Alliance of Labor Organization-Negros again assailed what it called the slow disposition of cases by the National Labor Relations Commission R egional Arbitration Board 6 and the Department of Labor and Employment in Bacolod City .

They also called for the removal of Executive Labor Arbiter Danilo Acosta and arbiters Phibun Pura and Romulo Sumalinog.

“Almost every year, workers picket these two offices to demand for a speedy resolution of cases filed by the workers, but it seems that their demand falls on deaf ears and have never been acted (upon),” DALO chairperson Alan Gozon said.

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