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Local Energy Sources To Solve Oil Crisis
PHILIPPINES - Former Philippine president Fidel Ramos is pushing for the use of the country’s vast energy resources rather than have an oil reserve, for the Philippines to become self-sufficient.Ramos was the inaugural lecturer of Silliman’s Annual Eminent Persons Lecture Series program, on the challenges and development prospects of the Filipino people, during its 107th Founder’s Day Anniversary.
According to reports in the Visayan Daily Star, he said that, with the world oil prices continuing to soar, mass poverty is affected due to high price of prime commodities. He proposed several measures to lessen the country’s dependence on imported fuel that include the use of alternative sources of energy.
The Philippines currently produces biodiesel from coconut oil and is expanding jatropha production.
Ramos called for more coconuts and jatropha to be planted to produce bio-diesel.
In Negros Oriental, 18,000 hectares have been identified as possible areas for the planting of jatropha, 500 hectares being in Valencia, and the rest are distributed in different areas within the 13,000 hectare-reservation area of the Philippine National Oil Company from Dauin to Amlan. Ramos said other alternative sources of energy included sugarcane.
Meanwhile, the Department of Energy (DoE) has launched a nationwide campaign to tap the Philippine country side for possible alternative power sources as part of the government’s 20-year Philippine energy plan.
A team from the department led by Undersecretary Ramon Santos visited the northern city of Santiago in Isabela to discuss the possibility of exploring the area for potential sources of renewable energy, with the provincial government and private agencies in the province.
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