To shoot yourself in the foot is to be the author or instigator of your own misfortune. This is something that happens frequently in the Philippines, in fact it is common practice. The question is, of course, whose foot is it that gets shot. It is rarely the foot of the shooter unless you count voting in elections when many people shoot themselves in the foot by voting in exchange for payment—selling their vote. Last Friday there was a groundbreaking event for a small hydropower project in Palawan. It’s necessary to add the word “small” to the description lest people think that something like the Chinese Three Gorges dam project is to be thrust upon the Palawan eco-system! It is the first of three small hydro projects to be developed; all are run of river, meaning that the flow of the river is diverted down a pipe [a big one that you could drive a truck through]to spin turbines that produce electricity, after which the water is returned to the river. In order to ensure that the water in the river keeps flowing over the years it is necessary to preserve the tree cover in the watershed, the catchment area…. Read full this story
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