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==[[Sorsogon News]]==
==[[Sorsogon News]]==
'''LGUs, NGOs, residents march against Irosin geothermal exploration'''
'''Sorsogon "got talent" festival to showcase talents of farmers, fishermen'''
*Source: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/240258/news/regions/lgus-ngos-residents-march-against-irosin-geothermal-exploration
*Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/index.php?idn=2&sid=&nid=2&rid=389758
*December 1, 2011 6:10pm
*December 2, 2011, 4:10 pm
:by  AMANDA LAGO, GMA News
:by  (PNA)
RMA/LAM/LQ/DOC/cbd




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, Dec. 2 (PNA) -– Farmers and fishermen here are not only good in food production but many of them could sing, dance and gracefully recite a “rawit-dawit” (local term for native poems) and this is what they will prove in the “Farmers and Fishermen Got Talent Show" this December.
 
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.
The talent show is part of the Sorsogon Festival, a two-week Christmas Season funfare in this city, as they celebrate the foundation day anniversary under Republic Act 8806 on December 2000.
 
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.
City Agriculture Office (CAO) chief Adelaida Detera said the fishermen and farmers will strut their talents in singing, playing musical instrument, dancing, rawit-dawit and even quiz bee under the festival's theme, “How do I Help Adapt and Mitigate the Bad Effects of Climate Change.”
 
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.
"Here they will not be using their nets and farm tools but their innate God-given gifts that these sectors will demonstrate in a different light," she said.
 
Glipo told GMA News Online the project involves surface exploration, which entails observation and reconnaissance, and subsurface drilling explorations.
Sorsogon Festival, now on its 5th year of celebration, has lined up varied activities to highlight the different sectors of society in a more "Christmas-based spirit", Detera said.
 
“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.
“We arrived at this activity with fervent hopes that giving opportunities to these sectors in showcasing their talents is also a way of recognizing in a different manner their vital contributions to the city in particular and to the nation in general,” she said.
 
Valuable prizes will be at stake in this talent competition which surely will add color to this year’s Sorsogon Festival celebration.
 
“Masaya ito. Sasali kami (This is fun. We are going to join),” said a group of tahong (green mussel) farmers in Barangay Cambulaga here as they take turn in honing their singing voices and dancing abilities in front of a “video-singko” machine at the village’s fishermen’s lounge.
 
In the next barangay of Bitano, Barangay Chairman Blandino Diaz said among the village’s would-be entries to the competition would be an 86-year old hook-and-line fisherman who got an inherent talent of reciting at any given time rawit-dawits of his spontaneous creation.
 
“This competition is really an interesting involvement for our farmers and fishermen. Everybody in the farm and fishing ground is excited about”, Diaz said.


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