NEWS: RP may lose investments due to power crisis

[Monseratto]

The Bataan Nuclear Plant should have been opened



seriously, everybody else has them. Even the people who got nuked also use them

Tree Huggers...

Anyway it's common for people to react everytime the sky is falling. But when everything is fine, they try to ignore fixing the problem as much as possible...

[safeorigin]

aye, and I bet the lobbyists are very happy with their kickbacks

[Monseratto]

I like his foresight and conclusions on tackling the energy problem. Too bad he's GMA chosen one...

Teodoro says yes to nuke power, no to BNPP revival

MANILA, Philippines – Amid the worsening energy problem in the country, former defense chief and administration presidential candidate Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro, Jr. endorsed nuclear power as a possible good energy source but thumbed down the revival of the controversial Bataan Nuclear Powerplant

However, Teodoro said that with the current energy crisis the country was facing, the government should not only give band-aid solutions but must address the problem on a long term basis and must establish a sustainable energy roadmap.

“We should take this crisis two fold, number one deal with the current shortfall in power generation, you know the power barges, self generation by big users of electricity, facilitate whatever they need to self generate but what should be done aside from addressing now, we must address not only 10 years from now, but 20 years, 25 years, 50 years from now,” Teodoro said.

“We have to look that far ahead so that every year, we could put in the additional infrastructure necessary to create generating capacity,” he added.

The former defense chief noted that hydroelectric energy was no longer a reliable energy source due to the changing climatic pattern hence nuclear energy must seriously be studied and considered.

He added that the main concern in putting up nuclear power plants was finding a geographically safe location and creating facilities for nuclear wastes.

“I think once those two issues are overcome, it’s a good investment,” Teodoro said.

He added that the country has the potential for training human capability for nuclear energy generation noting that Filipinos worked in nuclear power plants in Japan and South Korea over the last decades.

[safeorigin]

at least he's being realistic

[CVT]

Mahal na ang cost of electricity; Mawawala pa!....

9404:vader:

[Gen. Miting]

there is a temporary solution to the power crisis. i-monitor nyo lahat ng squatter areas na puro naka-jumper. we are subsidizing their consumption.

kaya this is a test of will. will the middle-class and all others who can afford to pay electricity send our poorest countrymen to the stone age.

and let's say we do succeed in removing all those "wasteful" electricity from them, how long naman kaya ang revolution?

[badsekktor]

actually hindi lang squatter areas ang nagnanakaw ng kuryente..... you'd be surprised that there are some businesses who also do this to cut down electricity cost.... lalo na yun may mga machineries na malakas sa kuryente.....

[Benji_DCP]

Thats the Philippines. One step forward... Two steps backaward.