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GOV’T Shifts High Gear Alternative Fuel Energy Program

Written by jeyzsonic on 17 July 2008

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo announced that the government is now ready to shift into high gear its bio-fuel energy program as the first step to end the country’s dependency to imported crude oil.

The President said she will inspect starting July 21 the 1,800 hectares in different parts of the country planted to jatropha under the government’s jatropha propagation program.

To date, 900 hectares have been planted to jatropha in Tamlang Valley in Negros Oriental, 500 hectares in Fort Magsasay, Nueva Ecija, 200 hectares in Camarines Sur, 100 hectares in General Santos City, 60 hectares in Ara, Palawan, 40 hectares in Cagayan de Oro City, 14 hectares in Bohol, and five hectares in Cadiz City, Negros Occidental.

The President said that because of the energy efficiency programs initiated by her administration, the country is now 56 percent energy self-sufficient, the highest energy self-sufficiency rating in its history.

She said that aside from alternative sources of fuel, the government will continue to promote the use of natural gas for transport; geothermal steam, wind mills like those already operational in Batanes and Bangui, Ilocos Sur, and solar power for electricity. (PIA/Bohol)

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