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==[[Sorsogon News]]==
==[[Sorsogon News]]==
'''Fiber Development Authority launches abaca disease management project cum training in Irosin town'''
'''LGUs, NGOs, residents march against Irosin geothermal exploration'''
*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=65670
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/240258/news/regions/lgus-ngos-residents-march-against-irosin-geothermal-exploration
*Friday, November 25, 2011
*December 1, 2011 6:10pm
:by   Irma A. Guhit
:by AMANDA LAGO, GMA News




 
Protesters marched to Irosin, Sorsogon Thursday morning against the proposed Bulusan Geothermal Exploration Project (BGEP), a five-year exploration program in the 350,000-hectare Bulusan Volcano Natural Park (BVNP).
SORSOGON CITY, November 25 (PIA) -- The Fiber Development Authority (FIDA) in close tandem with the local government of Irosin launched yesterday the Abaca Disease Management Project cum Training at the Patag Eco Park with 80 participants in attendance from its several identified abaca potential producing barangays.
Irosin municipal mayor Eduardo F. Ong, Jr in his message said that the local government of Irosin has seen the best opportunity in the abaca as an industry, it being one of the best plants that can be propagated in their town given the topography, land classification and weather conditions within the areas identified as planting sites based on FIDA’s assessment.
Arze Glipo, Intergrated Rural Development Foundation (IRDF) executive director, said in a telephone interview with GMA News Online that the protest march concluded with local officials signing a covenant with the people on their commitment to stop the BGEP.
Mr. Daniel L. Lachica, FIDA Development Officer here in the province said that the training was more on the identification of the “three deadly trio” disease of abaca namely; Bunchy Top, Bract Mosaic, and Abaca Mosaic and how can these be treated, controlled and finally eradicated given the new technologies discovered by FIDA and the opportunity for its massive plantation in the town of Irosin.
The province of Sorsogon, according to Dr. Editha O. Lomero, Ph.D., regional director and officer-in-charge, has been one of the biggest suppliers of abaca fiber of good quality and since the time that abaca was affected with these three diseases, abaca production here has deteriorated.
According to a media advisory released Wednesday by the Irosin Coalitin Against Geothermal (ICAG) and IRDF, the project is being proposed by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the service contractor SKI Construction Group.
The current administration under President Benigno Simeon C. Aquino according to her has pushed to revitalize and rehabilitate certain endemic industries within specific regions and here in Sorsogon, Irosin town has been for the past years one of the volume quality suppliers of hemp.
The farmers yesterday during the training were taught on the disease identification, application of chemicals and the right monitoring on how the abaca plant can be cultivated again to become an economic base of people in the countryside as major livelihood source.
The project “intends to generate steam energy from the foot of active Mt. Bulusan,” as well as “produce some 40 megawatts of geothermal power from the BVNP,” noted the advisory.
FIDA will also provide job order for personnel who will conduct and assist in the treatment according to Lachica and these will be the abaca propagators themselves who will be tapped.
Mayor Ong has forged commitment with FIDA to start the project and initial funding to the barangays of Bagsangan, Mapaso, Bolos, Carriedo, Cogon, Santo Domingo, Monbon , Cawayan and Patag and will soon be provided. (PIA-SORSOGON)
Glipo told GMA News Online the project involves surface exploration, which entails observation and reconnaissance, and subsurface drilling explorations.
“The people don’t like the project because they know that in similar cases in other areas, water was affected, and of course, the forest and environment as well,” she added, saying that aside from being a watershed that supplies water to many households and farmlands, the BVNP is also a natural park and a tourist attraction.


==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Sorsogon, Philippines==
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