Davao jeepney, trike drivers fear displacement with proposed bus system
Public transport drivers and operators opposed a city council proposal to build a public bus system, saying this would displace 22,500 jeepney and trycicle drivers in the city.
Group scores increase in electric rates
“The Department of Energy and the Energy Regulatory Commission are useless when it comes to defending the interests and welfare of the Filipino people. In fact, these government agencies are merely being used by power companies to defend their rate hikes,” the militant group, Bayan, said in a statement emailed to news organizations.
THE PULL
All hands from workers of a telephone company contractor pull up a heavy cable to stretch across electric posts in Buhangin. (davaotoday.com photo by Kenneth Jean Millondaga)
Solon fears Mindanao blackout will be used to “project a phantom power crisis”
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.”
Renewable energy pushed in Mindanao amid financing, licensing difficulties
The campaign to increase renewable energy (RE) production will need “more aggressiveness” on the part of government "or else non-RE sources will just naturally come-in”, the government socio-economic planning unit for Mindanao has said.
SURPRISE INSPECTION. Inspectors from the Land Transportation Office conducted a random inspection of passenger buses at Ecoland Terminal and found this bus having a different engine chassis than the one registered.(Tyrone Velez/ davaotoday.com)
Surprise inspection finds irregularities in buses, passenger vans
A surprise inspection by transportation agents on terminals in the city discovered irregularities in the registration of some buses and passenger vans.
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