By: Edgar Mana-ay WITH the arrival of the rainy season, everyone including, our brethren in Metro Manila, especially the politicians, forget about water shortage. It’s just like temporarily tucking a serious problem under the pillow and then tackle it again comes summertime! Water shortage is now a worldwide phenomenon. In fact, thousands of cities all
August 27, 2019
By: Engr. Edgar Mana-ay BASIC energy sources can be in solid form as in coal or wood; in liquid form as in crude oil or in gas form as in natural gas; in heat form as in the energy of the sun which is transformed into electricity through solar panels. It can also be in
August 19, 2019
By: Edgar Mana-ay THE West Philippine Sea (WPS) is the eastern part of South China Sea (SCS) which are INCLUDED in the Philippine Economic Exclusive Zone (EEZ). It includes Luzon Sea, the Kalayaan Group of Islands in Palawan and the Panatag Shoal, internationally called as the Scarborough Shoal and Huangyen Islands by China. Panatag Shoal’s
August 12, 2019
By: Edgar Mana-ay CONNECTING Iloilo City to Guimaras has been a dream for many decades. Just imagine the ease of travel to Guimaras, and vice versa, if there is a bridge or a tunnel connecting the two islands. In the past decades of planning this connection, NOBODY HAS THOUGHT OF A TUNNEL to connect the
August 8, 2019
By: Engr. Edgar Mana-ay Much has been said about phasing out of petroleum products, which fuels our moving equipment, because of the pollution to the environment, especially carbon dioxide (CO2) that kuno causes global warming. The lure of non-carbon energy sources to fuel the economy of the nation is very attractive to the less knowledgeable and innocent
August 5, 2019
By: Engr. Edgar Mana-ay DESPITE energy diversification like the fuel mix for our electric power plants (55% coal, 17% LNG from Malampaya, 16% geothermal, 12% from other energy sources), the country still needs to import our other energy requirements. This includes crude oil which is processed at our refinery into finished petroleum products such as
July 30, 2019
By: Engr. Edgar Mana-ay Brought into the limelight these days are the three watersheds which supply potable water to Metro Iloilo – the Tigum-Aganan Watershed (TAW) – and for Metro Manila, the Angat watershed. Half of the water woes of Metro Iloilo is due to the TAW watershed but in Metro Manila, 100 percent of
July 15, 2019
By: Engr. Edgar Mana-ay BEFORE we discuss a very revolutionary and mind-boggling theory on fish migration from China to the Philippines’ Scarborough Shoal and the Recto Bank (vice versa) by an equally intellectual pygmy, no less than Senate President Tito Sotto, let’s settle on a lesser intellectual issue on oil and gas migration underground. In
July 9, 2019
By: Engr. Edgar Mana-ay IT’S ALL OVER the newspapers the past two months that natural gas supply from the Malampaya offshore source in Palawan seas will run out in four years time. For the past 45 years, natural gas from the Malampaya gas fields supplied via a submarine pipeline to Batangas provides FORTY PERCENT, repeat,
July 1, 2019
By: Engr. Edgar Mana-ay LNG means Liquefied Natural Gas while LPG is Liquefied Petroleum Gas. The two are miles away from each other as to origin, processing and use. “Gasul” (actually a trade name) content of your 12-kg cylinders are LPG, the gas used for cooking and fuel for taxis and small trucks. About half
June 24, 2019
By: Engr. Edgar Mana-ay IN MY first article, this writer pointed out that it is the people of Metro Iloilo who suffered the most because of the molasses contamination fiasco of Jalaur River caused by the criminal act of a sugar central. This resulted in the cutting off of the 15,000-cubic meter per day (cmd)
June 17, 2019
By: Engr. Edgar Mana-ay IN THE PLAY “The Merchant of Venice” by William Shakespeare, there is a character named Shylock who said: “If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” This is exactly what happened to the Jalaur
June 10, 2019