Electric power consumers coalition bares root cause of Mindanao brownouts

By: Dave Tauli
Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers
April 3, 2012

SENATOR Sergio Osmeña III is barking up the wrong tree, and has the facts wrong on the Mindanao crisis. This is a big problem for Mindanao power consumers because it seems that Sen. Osmeña is expressing the prevailing viewpoint in the President Aquino government. Secretary Herminio Coloma of the Presidential Office, for example, has been saying the same things as Sen. Osmeña.

With the P-Noy government having the same perverse perspective as Senator Osmeña, we cannot expect the government to implement the correct solutions that would speedily terminate the blackouts without excessively increasing the power rates in Mindanao.

The Manila Standard headline article (copied below) states:
“Senator Sergio Osmeña III, chairman of the Senate committee on energy, blamed the executives and lawmakers in Mindanao and the environmentalist group Greenpeace for the island’s power woes characterized by crippling eight-hour daily power outages.”

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