SUAL,
Pangasinan – Mayor Roberto Arcinue called on the officials of the Save Sual
Movement to refrain from misleading the residents about the signature campaign
being pursued by village leaders, womenfolk, and leaders of the academe.
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| Coal Fired Power Plant in Sual Pangasinan owned by TEPCO, Marubeni of Japan. |
The
signature campaign is in support of the entry of another coal-fired power plant
in Sual.
Mayor
Arcinue said that one leader of the pseudo organization – an alleged priest –
is engaged in deception by telling people that power plant advocates are
getting the residents to sigh blank papers.
“This
is unfortunate because his (priest) claim is an insult to the people of Sual
who know better than to sign blank papers or coupon bonds,” Arcinue said.
Attached
to the Manifesto of Support are coupons on which the residents write their
respective names and addresses and affix their signatures, he said. Hundreds of
residents have already signed up.
More
residents, including women, barangay officials, drivers, employees, educators
and students have expressed their willingness to sign up if they get hold of
the manifesto, Mayor Arcinue said.
They
eagerly welcome the proposal of a multi-national company to put up a
state-of-the-art coal-fired power plant that could generate 1,000 megawatts, he
added.
The
same company is prepared to infuse over $2 billion for the construction of the
power facility that is expected to help stabilize the baseload power supply of
the country as many of the existing
power plants are already antiquated.
In
supporting another power plant in Sual, the barangay, and women leaders as well
as educators and civic leaders said the project could bring thousands of jobs
for Sualenos and millions of pesos in additional taxes and revenues.
“Sa
pamamagitan nito (power plant) ay magkakaroon
ng libu-libong trabaho para sa mga mamamayan, at karagdagang pondo ng
bayan para sa programang pangkalusugan, agrikultura, edukasyon at paaralan,
pabahay at pangkabuhayan, infrastructure, scholarship at youth and sports development,” they said in
the manifesto of support.
The
mayor said the Save Sual Movement has
never come up with evidence in their claim that the existing coal-fired power
plant in the locality has caused environmental pollution.
Sual
is host to Sual Coal-Fired Power plant of Team Energy that produces 1,200
megawatts, the biggest in the country.
He
said the Sangguniang Bayan has invited
several times officials of the
group to a dialogue and public hearing but they never showed up.
Their
non-appearance gave rise to speculation that the Save Sual Movement has not a
single proof to support their claim that the power plant is a source of
pollution.
The
proposed new power plant, Mayor Arcinue said, will use new clean-coal technology that include ultra-supercritical
fluidized bed combustion that eliminates air and water pollution.
President Duterte saw nothing wrong with the government’s plan to put up new
coal-fired power plants to boost power supply in the country.
He
said the Philippines will continue to use coal in power generation but will
implement new technologies to minimize emissions (PRESS RELEASE)
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