Atimonan: Bearing Witness, Lighting Hope
Channel: 350 East Asia
Date: 2018-02-07

The proposed Atimonan coal power project is a glaring example of how the Philippines is needlessly and dangerously over-dependent on coal. 

As a way of bearing witness to available energy alternatives to coal, we switched on a 5-kilowatt grid-type solar system on the rooftop of our parish church last August 2015, as part of the celebration to honor our parish patroness. The solar system now supplies almost 50% of the daytime electricity needs of the parish.