Climate Warriors

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http://pangasinanstar.prepys.com/archives/2007/12/27/after-all-a-real-man-for-the-job/

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And count in the Japanese too.

Our erstwhile wartime tormentors have come back with a vengeance too – and a whole lot of goodwill besides.

They’re into agriculture assistance with the local communities. For one, there’s that large-scale coconut plantation project that a Tokyo-based Pacific Biofields Corp. has launched in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte. The project calls for the conversion of some 600,000 hectares of barren lands into coconut plantations throughout northern Luzon in order to generate sufficient coconut methyl ester (CME) for biodiesel production.
The variety of coconut seedlings used in this project is expected to bear fruits four years after planting, according to a report.

Under the agreement with local counterparts headed by a group led by former Ilocos Sur congressman Salacnib Baterina, 70 % of the CME production will go to Japan while the other 30 percent will remain in the Philippines.

Pacific Bio-fields’ pointman Moriaki Hayashida said CME is not only environment friendly but is a much better base for biodiesel compared to other sources like the much-heralded jatropha, locally called tagumbao.
And he drops the catch: “One liter of CME can reduce three kilograms of carbon dioxide presence in the air.”

Score one for climate warriors against global warming.
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