5 installations in NegOr ‘high risk’ for sabotage

From the Visayan Daily Star (Jun 19): 5 installations in NegOr ‘high risk’ for sabotage

Military and police officials in Negros Oriental have tagged five of 47 vital installations in Negros Oriental as being high risk of bombing and sabotage.

They identified these as the URSUMCO Sugar Mill in Barangay Alangilanan in Manjuyod; URSUMCO Ethanol Plant in Barangay Tamiso, Bais City; the National Grid Corp. of the Philippines in Barangay Tandayag, Amlan; the Energy Development Corp. geothermal power plants and the Green Core Geothermal Inc., both in Valencia.

This was at the signing ceremony Tuesday between the Armed Forces of the Philippines, represented by Philippine Army Col. Allan Martin, commander of the 302nd Infantry Brigade, and Senior Supt. Mariano Natuel Jr., OIC provincial director of the Philippine National Police in Negros Oriental, on security concerns of these vital installations.

Natuel said these installations are prone to bombing and sabotage, because they provide basic services to the people in Negros Oriental, such as electricity being generated and transmitted by the EDC and the NGCP.

Other installations similarly prone to bombing, sabotage, extortion and arson are public and private installations, projects, facilities and equipment in the province. They were classified under three threat levels – low, moderate and high.

Nine of the installations were in the first district, 29 in the second district, and nine in the third district. The EDC geothermal power plants and Green Core are now under the jurisdiction of the Army, while the 45 others have been turned over to the PNP.

The other installations that are under the threat level of moderate and low, are the Ceres terminals, the Bulado and Basak ports in Guihulngan City, municipal water reservoir - Vallehermoso, the Negros Oriental I Electric Cooperative and PLDT – Bindoy, NERECO 2 and its sub-stations, and sub-offices in Mangnao and Real Street, the Dumaguete City Water District Office and water reservoir in Daro and Bajumpandan, and the seaport, all in Dumaguete City; the Central Azucarera de Bais sugar mill in Bais City; Chevron, Petron, and Shell depots, the Submarine Cable Transmission Line, Tandayag Wharf and the mini hydro plant in Amlan; The National Power Grid, and the Mabinay Terminal Complex in Mabinay; Fil Oil and Chevron depots, and Maayo Shipping in San Jose; the Sibulan port, the Looc Sibulan Wharf (Lite Shipping) and the Sibulan Airport in Sibulan; ORICA office and wharf and the DUCOMI Port in Bacong.

These areas already have security forces, either deployed for routine patrol, or with a fixed detachment to ensure that any threats to them can be deflected, the military and the police said.

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