Van Kessel (fourth from left, back row) with MGE team and members of the Rotary Club of Dasmariñas. CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS EXCEPT FOR VAN KESSEL WITH MGE EXECUTIVES
“I met James at a dinner and we just clicked,” van Kessel recalls. “They started also with bioethanol because it’s another transformation from gasoline to alternative fuels. We had to supply a factory for energy. But…the [bioethanol project] wasn’t protected by the government, so we had to let go of that.”