Angat Hydroelectric Plant
Angat, Bataan
One of the country's largest dams, it supplies potable water and energy to Metro Manila and nearby areas. It facilitates fishing and boating in a man-made lagoon and hunting in the nearby area.
Bataan Economic Zone
Mariveles, Bataan
The Bataan Economic Zone is a major industrial initiative that takes advantage of the area's easy accessibility to ocean-going vessels. Other major economic complexes are the Petrochemical Industrial Park, Bataan Technology Park, Hermosa Economic Zone and the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.
Bataan Export Processing Zone
Mariveles, Bataan
The country's largest export processing zone, where hundreds of foreign and local companies produce items for export.
Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP)
Morong, Bataan
Described as the solution to the Middle East oil embargo in 1973 and as a response to meeting the country’s energy demands, the Philippine government decided to build the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant in 1976 but was stopped in 1979 at the height of the Three Mile Island disaster in the United States. Designed to produce about 621 megawatts of electricity with its so-called Westinghouse light water reactor, the construction resumed in 1981 and was completed in 1983 at a staggering cost of $2.3 billion. In 1976, for safety reason, the government chose the Westinghouse’s pressurized water reactor over General Electric’s boiling water reactor. Days following the Chernobyl accident in April 1986, the national government under the leadership of then President Corazon Aquino decided to suspend operation of the plant and was put under preservation mode under the National Power Corporation (NAPOCOR). Despite never having been commissioned, the plant remains intact and maintained, including the nuclear reactor minus the Uranium. Among the issues raised against its operation was that it was built near major earthquake fault lines and close to the dormant Mt. Natib volcano. The Philippine government completed paying off its obligation on the plant in April 2007, more than 30 years after construction began. The government continues to maintain the plant at a cost of P40-P50 million a year. The management of its operator, NAPOCOR, decided in 2007 to open the plant to travel and tourism so that it would pay for itself. The core of the tour package is a close-up view of the huge reactor where the uranium is supposed to be locked in place. The Department of Tourism decided to provide technical and marketing assistance to help boost its tourism appeal. Included in the tour package is a visit to the Pawikan Conservation Center, Bataan Technology Park where the memorial shrine of Blessed John Paul II is enshrined, Las Casas Filipinas de Acuzar (an 18th century old-town living museum, Balanga Wetland Center for bird-watching, Plaza Mayor de Balanga, Balanga market complex for local delicacies and the Mt. Samat Shrine in Pilar for WWII history tour. Vista Venice Resort in Morong offers standard accommodation facilities plus outdoor living facilities for team-building exercises. For further details, please contact National Power Village Hotel and Information Office, Mr. Mauro Marcelo, Tel. Nos. (63 2) 922-4034 / 921-3541/3304 Email [email protected] Website www.napocor.gov.ph or call your tour operator. You may contact the Bataan Provincial Tourism Center, (047) 237-4785/4476 E-mail [email protected] or visit their website at www.bataan.gov.ph
Pawikan Conservation Center
Location Morong, Bataan
Located in Brgy. Nagbalayong, Morong, Bataan is the site of a community-based Pawikan Conservation Program devoted to the preservation and propagation of endangered marine turtles aptly called Olive Ridley turtles or Lepidochelys Olivacea. Manned by former poachers and turtle egg collectors who turned into conservation advocates, the Program's mission is to secure the eggs laid during the nesting season (between September and January) and transfer them into the hatchery to facilitate breeding and to contribute to the regeneration of the fishing grounds. Some 30,000 hatchlings have been released in Morong as of 2005 (since 1999) by a community-based conservation center formerly supervised by the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement (PRRM). The UN Development Program since 2001 has provided funds to the community for conservation work and maintenance of an office. Many tourists go to this sanctuary during the nesting season and especially during the Pawikan Festival to be able to get a chance to witness the endangered sea turtles struggle to shore at night to lay their eggs. During the Pawikan Festival, tourists are even able to "adopt a turtle" and personally hold and release a baby turtle into the sea. Contact: Manolo Ibias Mobile 0906-615-5546 or Nida Valdez Mobile 0928-718-5721Tel. No. (63 47) 237-4476 / 4785 Email [email protected]
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