For Renato Palanca, a resident of Linapacan, Palawan, the benefits of the country’s largest producing gas field are not for locals.
The fifth-class municipality is one of the towns of the Calamianes group of islands and is located within the coverage of Malampaya deep water gas-to-power project’s existing service contract.
“The impact [of the Malampaya deep water gas-to-power project and its foundation] is not felt in the community. Certainly not in the municipality, not in the village, and especially there at the poblacion of San Miguel,” the 63-year-old Palanca said.
This, despite the training seminars conducted by Malampaya Foundation, Inc. (MFI)—the development arm of the joint venture of the Malampaya project—in the last several years.