PETITION OF SUPPORT FOR THE CALL OF THE NEGRENES FOR CLEAN AND INDIGENOUS ENERGY SOURCE AND REJECTION OF THE PROPOSED PURCHASE OF ELECTRICITY BY THE CENTRAL NEGROS ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE (CENECO) FROM A COAL-FIRED POWER PLANT THAT KEPCO-SALCON POWER CORPORATION INTENDS TO BUILD IN CEBU CITY.
We the participants in the Bacolod conference-workshop on Climate Change organized by the Philippine Network on Climate Change (PNCC), an alliance of non-government organizations involved in the advocacy of climate change and sustainable development issues, express our full support to the rejection of the Negrenses of the proposed purchase of electricity by the Central Negros Electric Cooperative (CENECO) from a coal-fired power plant that Kepco-Salcon Power Corporation intends to build in Cebu City.
The life cycle of mined coal, from extraction to combustion, severely disrupts ecosystems, contaminates water supplies, emits noxious chemicals including mercury and provokes a multitude of serious health problems. But beyond coal’s obvious environmental impacts and threats to human health are the irreparably damaging effects of carbon dioxide emissions. Coal is the dominant source of global carbon dioxide emissions and thus, is the driving force behind global warming and climate change.
Increased use of coal will only push the warming of the Earth’s temperature, the impacts of which include crop failure, storm damage and ill health as brought by drought, floods, cyclones, mosquito pests, and water-borne disease which will become more frequent and intensive.
The Negrenses have already expressed their preference for renewable energy. This is recognized in the Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy (RE) Policy where Negros Island is cited as a model for RE development and utilization. And this is established in the 2005 Provincial Environment Code of Negros Occidental.
We fully support the call of the Negrenses for CENECO to reject coal as an energy source and instead source its power requirements from the geothermal power plants located in Negros Island—the Northern Negros Geothermal Plant in Negros Occidental and Palinpinon Geothermal Plant in Negros Oriental.
We fully support the call of the Negrenses for a clean and indigenous energy source!
Singed this 27th day of November 2007 in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philppines.
The life cycle of mined coal, from extraction to combustion, severely disrupts ecosystems, contaminates water supplies, emits noxious chemicals including mercury and provokes a multitude of serious health problems. But beyond coal’s obvious environmental impacts and threats to human health are the irreparably damaging effects of carbon dioxide emissions. Coal is the dominant source of global carbon dioxide emissions and thus, is the driving force behind global warming and climate change.
Increased use of coal will only push the warming of the Earth’s temperature, the impacts of which include crop failure, storm damage and ill health as brought by drought, floods, cyclones, mosquito pests, and water-borne disease which will become more frequent and intensive.
The Negrenses have already expressed their preference for renewable energy. This is recognized in the Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy (RE) Policy where Negros Island is cited as a model for RE development and utilization. And this is established in the 2005 Provincial Environment Code of Negros Occidental.
We fully support the call of the Negrenses for CENECO to reject coal as an energy source and instead source its power requirements from the geothermal power plants located in Negros Island—the Northern Negros Geothermal Plant in Negros Occidental and Palinpinon Geothermal Plant in Negros Oriental.
We fully support the call of the Negrenses for a clean and indigenous energy source!
Singed this 27th day of November 2007 in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Philppines.
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