Government may find it an “expensive emergency measure” to put up coal-fired power plants to address the power crises in the country but more especially in Mindanao, the country’s climate change lead negotiator in the United Nations said.
A partylist lawmaker said they “fear” that the island-wide Mindanao blackout early morning today “will once again be used by the Aquino government to once again project a phantom power crisis and push or fast tract the privatization of the remaining government power assets like the Agus-Pulangi power complex.”
With the unexpected citywide water interruption on February 27 caused by the Mindanao-wide power outage, Davao City Water District will postpone the three sets of water cuts scheduled February 28 – March 2.
Typhoon Pablo victims burn an effigy of President Aquino to symbolize their disgust on government's "inutility" to respond to the needs of disaster victims (Jaja Necosia/davaotoday.com)
Typhoo Pablo (international name Bopha) victims stormed the Department of Social Welfare and Development Office one year after the agency "failed on its commitment" to distribute 10,000 sacks of rice as relief to them. (Ace R. Morandante/davaotoday.com)