In a press statement made by Philippine Energy Minister Rafael Lotilla, he said that the option for the Philippines to dabble in Nuclear Energy as a source of Electricity is still 15 years down the road. As this is the time needed to train experts to study the viability of using Nuclear Power.
In line with this, it was also mentioned in the Media Release:
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Slated to be finished by December 2010, the 3 hydro projects are located in Virac Catanduanes. The 5 sites are expected to generate about 8.6 MW at a cost of about P500M.
The 5 sites identified to comprise the 3 hydro projects are:
Solong River in San Miguel (2,300 kilowatts); Hitoma Lower Cascade in Obi, Caramoran (1,500 KW); Hitoma Upper Cascade, Obi, Caramoran (1,575 KW); Pagsangahan, San Miguel (2,100 KW); and, Hinipaan Upper Cascade in Salvacion, Bagamanoc (1,200 KW).
The 2007 CSR Expo will be held at the Sofitel Philippine Plaza Hotel on July 16~18 in Pasay City. This was announced during a “Walk the Talk” activity with some of the CEO’s of top corporations in the Philippines. They wanted to convey the message to the public that top corporations in the Philippines were trying to do their part to address the climate crisis and other environment issues.
They also highlighted their individual projects in this forum:
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Chemrez, my favorite pioneering biodiesel manufacturer in the Philippines (good luck in trying to buy their stock!), announced that they will start selling fractionated biodiesel internationally next month once construction on their new facility has finished. This facility has the capability to produce 60,000 MT per year of Fractionated CME.
Fractionated biodiesel can be used as:
US based E-Cane Fuel Corp announced that their $150 M Ethanol Distillery located in Pampanga, Luzon will be operational by 2009. This ethanol distillery will pump out 150M Liters/year.
Jean-Pierre Monclin, company CEO, said that the primary market for the plants products will be sold locally to serve the Philippine’s Biofuel requirements (imposed by the 2006 Philippine Biofuel Act) and will eventually be exported to Japan and South Korea.
Feedstock for the distillery will be obtained from neighbors Tarlac, Nueva Ecija and of course Pampanga.
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