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Posted on August 27, 2014 09:59:00 PM
PHILEX Mining Corp. has agreed with the National Power Corp. (Napocor) to identify parts of a watershed in Benguet to be reforested over five years.
A PHILEX miner use a drilling machine under Mt. Santo Tomas in northern Benguet. -- AFP
This follows the visit of Napocor President Gladys Sta. Rita to the Philex Padcal Mine, during which she asked Philex to reforest at least 100 hectares within the year.
According to Philex Mining Senior Vice-President Manuel Agcaoili, Philex has identified potential reforestation sites within an area of some 500 hectares around San Roque Dam near the Padcal mine’s tailings storage facility no. 3.
“We have agreed to meet again and identify the areas that are going to be reforested under a program that we have proposed to them earlier,” he said.
Napocor now owns the San Roque Dam which is operated by the San Roque Multipurpose Project, under a power purchase agreement by the San Roque Power Corp.
The proposed tree planting activity, according to Padcal Community Relations Manager Feliciano Diso, Jr., should be approved and carried out in cooperation with Napocor.
The company added that it will be hiring seasonal workers from the outlying neighboring communities for the project.
Reforestation of 100 hectares takes three years, according to the company’s environment quality monitoring and enhancement department.
Philex said it has already planted some eight million trees in about 2,500 hectares of land in Itogon and Tuba. -- Jon Viktor D. Cabuenas source
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