21/05/2019
WHAT! NO COAL?
This means that you don't like a State of The Art Coal Plant to be constructed in the city by San Miguel Corporation? WHY?
May I ask CST-R... You allow graduation to hundreds every year, so where will you let them work in due time?
Stable Power supply is needed to generate more economic activity. More industries will develop if there is cheaper power supply. More industries developed means more jobs for the residents.
There ain't any Power Source that is of lower cost and more practical than the Modern Coal Power Plant today. That is why so many of these plants are constructed around the country. The Modern Coal plants no longer dispose Toxic materials to air, land and water as before and these are properly managed as well.
Yes, you got Solar Energy, but these required huge hectarage of land at very low and unstable power generation. Much more, your present ones are to directly supply NGCP for the use by Bacolod industries! There ought to have an Exclusivity Clause to insure power supply for the neighboring towns & cities being the source.
ISO 1400 Environmental Management System (EMS) Certification is an International Certifying Body created by the Modern World to ensure commitment for Environmentally Sustainable Development- all industries of SMC are certified by International Certifying Bodies. This means they commit internationally to develop industries that Sustain Environment and to lose such Certification means the non-recognition of their products internationally. Thus definitely San Miguel Corp will not venture into industries that will destroy their business reputation. For them to venture in Power Industry was carefully decided.
Presently some of CSTR graduates can land in local jobs like govt office employees or teachers. But these are not enough! Industries must be developed to accept more workers!
So if no San Carlos Industries, where do you plan to send the rest of your graduates? To Cebu? To Bacolod? To Manila?
Note there are more people needing work in their areas! It will always be difficult for a non-Resident to land a job. And if he can, it will be very expensive for him due to Rent, Food, etc.. This means you have to start all over again.
The only solution is to develop more industries in San Carlos.
Toledo now already has two (2) Coal Power Plants. The first was owned by Metrobank and the latest is by Aboitiz Power. They are very lucky and soon industries will boom in the area. Yet they are just 20 km away. Surely San Carlos is affected if ever they emit Toxic gases, liquids, etc.
Don't be mislead by ignorant militant ideologies. They just want everyone to remain poor because they exists conveniently in poor areas.
Their idea that this affects the Ozone is Very Wrong. I have studied MSEM- Masters in Science on Environmental Management. And the debate between Now vs Tomorrow, or Economy vs Environment is a Never Ending Debate.
Our emission is not even 0.1% and is only very small compared to Highly Industrialized Countries like US, China, Europe, etc.. who for hundred years had been polluting the earth.
And how many years now are you burning your katubhan? Is that not Air Pollution? What about the Biogas Plant?
Having SMC to construct the State of the Art Coal Fired Power Plant is a gift to San Carlos.
And surely if you refuse this will still be constructed somewhere and once again an opportunity to the city is lost.
Come to think of it.
