Call for new power plant pushed anew in Sual
SUAL—Even after the proposal to construct another power plant in the town was foiled, the call for the establishment of the 2nd coal-fired power plant in the town won’t die.
This after the Sual Pro-Progress, a group of residents threw their support to the development projects laid out by Mayor Liseldo Calugay that includes a second power plant.
Mayor Calugay has announced that one of his top priorities is the formulation of Sual’s Comprehensive Land Use Plan (CLUP) for consideration of foreign and domestic investors to put up power plants, factories, seaport, shipbuilding facilities and other industries worth billions of U.S. dollars.
Among the priority projects for the CLUP is the establishment of an international seaport and an additional power plant to generate jobs and additional revenues for the residents and the municipal government.
“The planned Sual International Seaport is a major infrastructure that will benefit not only our town but the whole province because it will serve as the landing area for domestic and international container ships,” Mayor Calugay said in his address.
Another project under consideration, the group said, is the construction of another coal-fired power plant earlier proposed by Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) worth two billion U.S. dollars.
The two projects are expected to generate no less than one thousand jobs for Sual residents and about P800 million additional revenues annually for the municipality of Sual and the province.
Director General Charito Plaza of the Philippine Economic Zone Authority also expressed support for the construction of more power plants in Pangasinan to support the establishment of more economic zones, the group said in its statement.
Meanwhile. Raul Lambino, the Presidential Adviser for Northern Luzon and administrator of the Cagayan Economic Zone Authority, is also working for the establishment of an international seaport which, he said will be “most likely in the municipality of Sual.”
“It is regrettable that we do not have an economic zone in Pangasinan. I wish our congressmen would sponsor a bill in Congress for the establishment of a Pangasinan Special Economic Zone,” Lambino said.
Lambino also believes that Sual town is an ideal site because it has a coal-fired power plant being operated by Team Energy of Japan.
He said South Korean Ambassador Han Dong-man has informed him about Korean investors’ plan to put up another coal-fired power plant in Sual and was assured that the advent of new technology will greatly reduce if not eliminate greenhouse gas emissions.
Lambino cited the case of Zhejiang City in China where three coal-fired power plants are located “right in the heart of the City” with a combined generating capacity of 14,000 megawatts. Zhejiang City, he said, is the hub of the garment and textile industry in China. (Leonardo Micua)
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