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==Orion can decongest Metropolitan Manila== | |||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/333073/orion-can-decongest-metropolitan-manila | |||
*By: MAR T. SUPNAD | |||
*''September 03, 2011'' | |||
ORION, Bataan, Philippines – Mayor Jose Santos Saturday asked President Benigno S. Aquino III to make this town be an alternative port to decongest Metro Manila’s ports. | |||
The President recently said there is a need to decongest Metro Manila which has been straining under the weight of a ballooning population and the heavy volume of vehicles such as jeepneys and big trucks plying near the ports. | |||
“President Aquino should consider our coastal town as an alternative to Metro Manila’s ports and we can be a part of the solution to decongest Metro Manila, since our town is located along Manila Bay which is very close to Metro Manila,” pointed out Santos, a political ally of Aquino. | |||
Santos said that aside from being strategically located, the town’s harbor is deep enough to take in international and cargo vessels. “Orion town is accessible to Subic-Clark-Tarlac Expressway, North Luzon Expressway, SBMA and Clark and it is only 22 nautical miles from Manila or 45 minutes away travel via Manila Bay,” said Santos. | |||
Orion has a port built through the initiatives of Rep. Abet S. Garcia and the Philippine Port Authority that can accommodate ferry boats. Garcia is also inviting ferry owners to open a Manila-Orion route. | |||
Santos pointed out that the national government should consider his town’s harbor if it wanted to decongest Metro Manila. “Of course, the big cargo trucks, the thousands of jeepneys plying Metro Manila’s ports can then be lessened once there is an international and alternative port in Orion,” said Santos. | |||
Only recently, a US-based investment firm signed contract with the mayor to put up a $500-million garbage-fuelled power plant in Orion that can be the answer to the garbage problem in Bataan. | |||
Jose U. Utrillo, president and chief executive officer of the Concord Pacific Investment, said the government of Orion will not spend a single centavo for the proposed plant. | |||
==Cheaper electricity in Bataan seen== | ==Cheaper electricity in Bataan seen== | ||
*Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/332939/cheaper-electricity-bataan-seen | *Source: http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/332939/cheaper-electricity-bataan-seen | ||