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President
Rodrigo Roa Duterte graced the ceremonial switch-on and ground-breaking of a
power plant in Maasim, Sarangani on January 26, 2017.
This
marked the start of construction for the second 105-megawatt (MW) section of
Alsons Power Group’s 210-MW Sarangani Energy Corporation (SEC) coal-fired power
plant.
In
line with President Duterte’s major thrust of developing the countryside, the
SEC’s second power section, which would provide stable supply of electricity in
Mindanao, is expected to fuel the growth of industries and positioning Mindanao
as an alternative investment destination.
“Science
is good but technology is expensive… We cannot develop until we have the power.
And power is sometimes being challenged from all sides,” the President said in
his speech.
“So
we are now trying to figure out how to balance it. We would like to have a
clean planet, but that would be nigh impossible really to insist on it because
civilization needs to have light. So you strike a happy balance,” President
Duterte continued.
The
Chief Executive also urged industry stakeholders to upgrade technology in light
of lack of alternative sources of affordable fuel in lieu of coal.
“For
as long as the most viable fuel is coal and the cheapest so that the power can
also be delivered the energy to the people at a much lower price, then we’ll
have no other alternative except to upgrade the technology to its fullest,” President
Duterte explained, adding that the government has the “power to limit and power
to increase.”
Meanwhile,
the Chief Executive castigated energy board officials involved in
price-fixing.
“An
energy board that fixes the price of what you should pay for the energy sector
are all there corrupt… Until now they are still there. Stay there, but I will
transfer your office to Basilan,” President Duterte said.
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