Stakeholders want Liguasan Delta gas tapped nowA view of the northern side of the Liguasan Delta from a barangay at the border of North Cotabato’s Aleosan and Midsayap towns. COTABATO CITY, Philippines — The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) has urged Malacañang and the Bangsamoro government to start exploring the natural gas deposits in the 220,000-hectare Liguasan Delta, touted as Asia’s largest. Surveys in the 1990s showed that the largest volume of natural gas deposits in Liguasan Delta are in marshes in the Sultan sa Barongis and Radjah Buayan towns in BARMM’s Maguindanao del Sur province. Malacañang and the BARMM government can, thus, be partners now in extracting the natural gas deposits in Sultan sa Barongis and other municipalities inside BARMM’s territory,” Sema said. The chief minister of BARMM, Ahod Ebrahim, is chairman of the central committee of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF).

Source: The North Africa Journal April 08, 2023 08:10 UTC