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Read more about the article Power rate hike not ‘across the board’ – MinDA
An electric lineman braves the midday heat as he fixed a line in an intersection along JP Laurel Avenue Davao City (davaotoday.com photo by Medel V. Hernani)

Power rate hike not ‘across the board’ – MinDA

The increase in power rates by distribution utilities that either operate standby power generation facilities or are buying electricity from other producers for their “peaking requirement” is not “across the board”, a director of the Mindanao Development Authority (MinDA) said.

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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.

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Read more about the article Monique Wilson supports Kidapawan vendors
MONIQUE WILSON BATS FOR ONE-BILLION RISING 2014 Theatre actress, singer Monique Wilson is joined by women rights advocates in Davao to promote the One Billion Rising (OBR) global movement to end violence against women and girls (VAW). Wilson announced that the OBR 2014 will focus on calling for justice for victims of violence from sexual to political and economic violence. (davaotoday.com photo by Ace R. Morandante)

Monique Wilson supports Kidapawan vendors

Theater actress and activist Monique Wilson took the cudgels of some 700 small vendors who were fighting against an eviction.

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Read more about the article Solon fears Mindanao blackout will be used to “project a phantom power crisis”
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.”

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