BAYOMBONG, Nueva Vizcaya: Heavy downpour failed to dampen the resolve of 800 tribesmen of Bugkalot Indigenous Cultural Communities (BICC) holding protest actions at the Casecnan area here to demand their share of profits from the operation of power and irrigation project of an American firm.

BICC chieftain Rosario Camma said California Energy (CalEnergy) operates the Casecnan Water and Energy Project on their ancestral land and have not given them their due share in spite its earning billions of pesos for the past 15 years.

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