As the geologist Dr. Carlo Arcilla, director of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute , puts it, 47 percent of Philippine electricity comes from coal, mostly from Indonesia, whose prices have increased by 500 percent in the past two years. Natural gas from Malampaya represents 22 percent of the energy mix, but supply is rapidly declining and gas prices have risen by 122 percent in the last three years.
2 billion nuclear fiasco.' That same year, President Ferdinand E. Marcos fell from power and the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster, the world's worst ever civil nuclear disaster, struck north of Ukraine. President Corazon Aquino decided to mothball the BNPP largely for political rather than scientific and technical reasons.
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