Power outages lasting for as long as 20 hours daily in Occidental Mindoro have prompted the provincial board to put the province under a state of calamity, Gov. Eduardo Gadiano said. | mvirolaINQ /PDI
The province is not connected to the national power grid, Gadiano earlier told the reporters.
The governor said provincial leaders had taken several steps to solve or at least mitigate the decades-old power problem by sending letters to the President, holding dialogues with all concerned groups and hosting a power summit. In a phone interview on Wednesday, Calaranan said about 5,000 people attended a concert-protest that they staged in the town of San Jose on April 15 as they “hoped to be heard louder this time [about our] dehumanizing situation.” The other groups behind the “blackout concert” were Pundidong Ilaw, Eight Ball Tribe, Mangyan Movement and the Samahan ng Consumers ng Occidental Mindoro.
On Thursday, the Department of Education in Occidental Mindoro reported that students were starting to feel the impact of the power interruptions, especially amid the dry season.
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