Several alerts have been issued by the NGCP the past few days because our aging power plants keep breaking down. Our energy reserves are very thin. Recall that in the six years of the Duterte presidency, not a single power plant was commissioned.
Our LNG imports, like oil, are subject to the uncertainties of geopolitics.They are delivered through a complex web of shipping routes and vulnerable to energy cartels. The bill will require the Department of Energy to lay down rules giving priority to the use of natural gas found and developed within our borders. This makes sense. It will encourage investments in natural gas exploration and development. This, by itself, will create numerous jobs in our economy.
There was resistance to the poll body’s capriciousness from the start. The Comelec’s own law department insisted that the arbitrary exclusion of Smartmatic was imprudent due to lack of a legal basis. Commissioner Aimee Ferolino, in her dissenting opinion, argued the same. She noted that the former technology provider was excluded without being given prior notice nor the opportunity to contest allegations made against it.
Had the Comelec decided to reuse the machines, they would have saved the Filipino taxpayers billions of pesos. By junking not only Smartmatic but also tens of thousands of usable machines, the Comelec only stoked speculations of anomaly in the new deal. The new technology provider is tarred by failure in previous elections elsewhere.
It’s good to see countries with shared values going beyond words in recognizing the Philippines’ sovereign rights and maritime entitlements in the South China Sea, based on the United Nations Convention...
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