from Philippine Daily Inquirer
Link: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20100312-258286/NP-bet-says-electricity-situation-not--desperate
A SENATORIAL CANdidate of the Nacionalista Party said solutions are available to the shortage in electricity that Mindanao was suffering.
In a statement sent to the Inquirer on Thursday, Ramon Mitra III, NP senatorial candidate and former director of the then Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC), said the government should not act as if it was desperate in finding solutions to the power shortage.
“Nothing is in the desperate level and there are solutions waiting to be implemented,” he said in the statement.
“But the key word is implementation despite the time required for the solutions to take effect,” Mitra said. “The key is to implement them now, today, not a moment longer.”
He said the power problem would take time to solve.
“But it needs guts and political will to even talk about the details of the problems and the even more important details of the possible solutions which we have been waiting to be executed,” Mitra added.
A SENATORIAL CANdidate of the Nacionalista Party said solutions are available to the shortage in electricity that Mindanao was suffering.
In a statement sent to the Inquirer on Thursday, Ramon Mitra III, NP senatorial candidate and former director of the then Philippine National Oil Co. (PNOC), said the government should not act as if it was desperate in finding solutions to the power shortage.
“Nothing is in the desperate level and there are solutions waiting to be implemented,” he said in the statement.
“But the key word is implementation despite the time required for the solutions to take effect,” Mitra said. “The key is to implement them now, today, not a moment longer.”
He said the power problem would take time to solve.
“But it needs guts and political will to even talk about the details of the problems and the even more important details of the possible solutions which we have been waiting to be executed,” Mitra added.
Mitra’s home province of Palawan is one of the areas badly hit by brownouts.
“The brownouts are a huge disadvantage to business in Palawan,” he said.
He said natural gas extracted from wells in Malampaya should be used as fuel for generator sets in Palawan.
In Southern Leyte, Rep. Roger Mercado said the government should seriously study the opening of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant.
“Those who said the BNPP is unsafe are only speculating. Whether we like it or not it’s propitious (opening of the power plant). It’s still viable,” Mercado told reporters in Maasin.
Mercado said he and several other congressmen have inspected the BNPP and found that it was not only safe to operate but also well-constructed.
He said it was unfortunate that the BNPP became a casualty of the 1986 People Power Revolution that toppled the Marcos dictatorship.
Mercado said operating the BNPP has become vital now because of the shortage in electricity being felt most in Mindanao and threatening Luzon.
The BNPP, according to him, could generate up to 600 megawatts of electricity.
He also urged the government to continue exploring geothermal sources of energy in Mt. Cabalian in San Juan, Southern Leyte.
The PNOC (now Energy Development Corp.) has abandoned its exploration in the area in 2009. Inquirer Southern Luzon and Jani Arnaiz, Inquirer Visayas.
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