Tabuk is pilot area for local power firm
>> Sunday, July 12, 2009
TABUK CITY, Kalinga – The Cordillera Regional Development Council recently identified this city as pilot area where a local power corporation owned by the stakeholders in the affected communities and the whole province will own a power generation facility to satisfy their power requirements and earn profit from the sale of excess electricity.
This developed after provincial officials headed by Gov. Floydelia Diasen, Tabuk City officials led by Vice-Mayor Ranier Sarol and the RDC-Car under the stewardship of Juan Ngalob, regional director of the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) in the Cordillera conducted an exposure and educational trip in Bohol to study the set up of a local power corporation for their place.
Under the concept of the local power corporation here, the mini-hydro power plant will be co-owned by the provincial, municipal and barangay governments as well as the indigenous communities to ensure social acceptability and sufficient power supply, especially for still unenergized areas in the province.
According to Ngalob, the importance of including the indigenous communities in the partnership is to help sustain the source of water which are the watersheds, thus, if they are active involved in the operation of the power corporation, they will be encouraged to spearhead the preservation and protection of the environment in their respective places.
The RDC-has earmarked at least P1 million from the autonomy fund to capacitate the local governments to be financially independent since fiscal autonomy is a prelude to regional autonomy, an advocacy which is now being undertaken by the region’s policy-making body to spur economic development in the Cordillera in the future. -- Dexter A. See
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