NYTT ÅR, NY VÅG!

Vi sparkar igång vårens späckade NY VÅG-program med en fantastisk kväll på Scharinska Villan, som vanligt the place to be! Det blir klubb, det blir konsert, det blir fest! Och DU är inbjuden!

Den 29e Januari slår vi upp portarna för årets första NY VÅG-klubb och vi bjuder då på inga mindre än:

INDUSTRI ROYAL

- Snygg pop-punk med ännu snyggare killar som bara blir bättre och bättre och bättre. En ära att ha dem hos oss!
http://www.myspace.com/industriroyal

BRUKET

- Lovande, svenskt punkband från gnällbältet! THE HIVES proddar deras debutplatta och de spås en lysande framtid. Gör sin Umeådebut hos NY VÅG – såklart! Vart annars?

http://www.myspace.com/bruket

DJ: DENNIS LYXZÉN

- Rödvinsvänsterns krambjörn tar med sig vinylsinglarna till allas stora nöje!

NU KÖR VI! SHIT VA KUL DET BLIR!

Scharinska Villan 29/1, 20 år, 21-02, 100 kr.

VI SES I DIMMAN!

Inge, Dennis, Robban och Erik – kulturhuvudstadens stoltheter!

WHATTA?!

Belly Invasion Series presents:

The Belly goes to brews Co.!

Deemlight
Dreign
Hiraya
Waso
Uber
Flaurah
House of Ravens
Stonedcigars

Jan 30, 2010 Sat!

Brews Co. Sportsbar – 189 Aguirre Ave cor Dela Rama st, BF homes, Paranaque City

150php to get in
*includes 1 free beer

Gates open @ 9pm

Every summer, 22-year old Markus Sevilla goes to Boracay with his friends. But he often complains about the long and inconvenient route from the Kalibo Airport to the Caticlan pier, the gateway to the world-famous island which is known for its powdery beaches.

This month, the much-awaited expansion of the Caticlan airport will finally start, upgrading it to international standards, said Aklan Gov. Carlito Marquez.

“It will help us achieve our goal of having one million tourists each year,” Marquez said in an interview with GMANews.TV.

The airstrip, which can only service small turbo-propeller aircraft, will be widened to cater to jet airliners, he added. Last year, only two airlines could fly to Caticlan, leaving hundreds of thousands of tourists no other choice but to travel to Boracay via the Kalibo Airport, an hour-and-a-half drive to the Caticlan jetty port.

But when he learned that a nearby hill would have to be leveled to extend the runway of the airstrip, he said authorities should rethink their plans.

Chopping off the hill

The expansion of the Caticlan Airport involves the extension of the length of its runway from 890 meters to 1,900 meters, in order to accommodate Airbus A320 jetliners. But the plan requires chopping off a section of a 45-meter hill on the eastern side that blocks one end of the current airstrip.

Sevilla’s concerns about the plan were raised earlier by Dr. Ricarte Javellosa of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ (DENR) Mines and Geosciences Bureau, who said leveling the hill would pose threats to Boracay’s beaches.

“That particular hill is a climate barrier that deflects and converts strong monsoon winds into gentle breezes that swirl and loiter along the beaches of Boracay and Caticlan,” he said in a newspaper interview last December.

Senator Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate oversight committee on Climate Change, has also warned that leveling the hill would trigger a “micro-climatic change” that will have a negative impact on Aklan’s “forests, wetland, and water quality.”

The airport is located on the northwestern section of Aklan province. Tourist arriving at the Caticlan airport only have to travel for ten minutes on land transportation to the pier, where they take a 20-minute boat ride to Boracay island.

The DENR has issued an Environmental Clearance Certificate for the airport expansion, paving the way for the Caticlan International Airport Development Corp. (CIADC) to begin the P2.5-billion project, Marquez said.

In a news report, CIADC president Lino Barte has been quoted as saying that leveling one-third of the hill would take about three months. The entire airport expansion project will take about seven years to complete, he said.

~ Paging Haribon Foundation, paging Haribon Foundation?

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