Wednesday, January 16, 2008 Bago mayor welcomes PNOC expansion
BAGO City Mayor Ramon Torres welcomed the expansion of Philippine National Oil Company - Northern Negros Geothermal Project (PNOC-NNGP) up to the Mt. Kanlaon's 196 hectares buffer zone area.
"As a host city, PNOC's move to expand is something that we look forward considering the power needs of the province soon," Torres said.
He said PNOC has a good track record and there was no instance that it encroached the forest.
Instead PNOC has reforest the whole area surrounding its operations, the Bago mayor explained.
Torres explained that while PNOC will give Bago City a copy of its master plan on how to dig its well expansion, he said, "The procedure is purely underground digging. So it will not encroach the forest."
