GOINGS ON: Bantay Kalikasan joins MWSS’ One Million Trees Campaign

The Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System has launched the One Million Tree Challenge for Watersheds.

This campaign aims to plant, maintain and nurture at least one million trees annually for five years under the current administration with the end view of protecting the watersheds and ensuring sustainable supply of drinking water to 12 million Metro Manila residents.

Six watersheds have been identified as beneficiaries of this campaign. These are Umiray, Angat, Ipo, Marikina, Laguna Lake and La Mesa watersheds.

ABS-CBN Lingkod Kapamilya’s environmental arm, Bantay Kalikasan, took on the rehabilitation of the La Mesa Watershed in 1999, in partnership with MWSS and the two concessionaires: Maynilad and Manila Water.
Bantay Kalikasan committed to plant at least 140,000 trees every year.
The One Million Trees Campaign is part of the celebration of MWSS’ 140th anniversary in February 2018 and Bantay Kalikasan’s 20th anniversary in July 2018.

NGCP, First Balfour sign P1.7-B Hermosa-San Jose transmission line project

The National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) recently awarded to First Balfour Inc. the contract to construct the P1.7-billion Hermosa-San Jose 500-kiloVolt transmission line project.

The contract, which is the first partnership between NGCP and First Balfour, calls for the construction of an additional network of transmission line towers in Bulacan, Pampanga and Bataan as part of NGCP’s Luzon 500kV Backbone.

NGCP is undertaking a number of new backbone projects to assure the long-term adequacy and reliability of connection between the NGCP grid and power plants that will go online in the future.