The initial reaction from political bigwigs of the various parties fielding their respective tickets for next year’s election seems to have nipped in the bud the efforts to mobilize the masses behind the Noynoy Aquino for President Movement.

Noynoy still has to announce his acceptance of the challenge by Senator Mar Roxas to be the Liberal Party’s presidential standard bearer.
Naturally, the others are watching whether Noynoy will reciprocate Roxas’ heroic gesture by picking him as his running mate. In short, that will make it another LP ticket and bar other potential running-mates from teaming up with Aquino.

The statement by the leaders do not necessarily mean that it is also the voice of their followers. Let us wait for the outcome of the Noynoy for President campaign for signatures nationwide.

In Negros Occidental, it seems that even the Liberal Party leaders seem to have been paralyzed by the withdrawal from the presidential race of erstwhile LP leader Senator Mar Roxas.

Instead, a group of reformists such as Cris Torres and Joel Dojillo has taken the pains to launch a signature campaign for Noynoy.

Granted that they may seem superfluous. After all, it will depend on Noynoy’s final decision which is forthcoming. Still, at least, they should have shown signs of converting the many who have been touched by Aquino’s promise of a reformist movement. But, instead, have not heard nor seen something that bodes a resurgent LP in the province.

C’est la vie!

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San Carlos City is making a serious bid to become the fastest growing city of Negros Occidental.

At least, for the moment, it promises to be the center for the movement to save the province into the era of alternative fuels and power.
Note that these are the major ingredients for industrialization. And San Carlos is leaving behind Bacolod City.

The P3-billion San Carlos Bioenergy, Inc., chaired by Jose Ma. Zabaleta, has already in the drawing boards its carbone dioxide recovery plant. This will be operational by next year. Better yet, shipyards in Toledo City and Balamban, Cebu, have already contracted to buy the plant’s wielding gas.
And SBCI is also constructing a 12 to 15 megawatt biomass power plant that will sell its extra power to the Victorias Power Coop.

Here, we already foresee San Carlos becoming the major source of alternative power in the province. That is the precursor of the new industrial era for Negros Occidental.

Watch out, Bacolod.*