People display placards and led lights during a vigil for Malaysian national Nagaenthran K. Dharmalingam, sentenced to death for trafficking heroin into Singapore, at Speakers corner in Singapore on April 25, 2022. Roslan RAHMAN / AFP SINGAPORE, Singapore – A mentally disabled Malaysian man...
All government agencies, including Malacanang, that will fail to comply with the mandated "energy savings" policy under the Government Energy Management Program (GEMP) of the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Act will be slapped with penalties, according to the Department of Energy. The DOE, which...
The government has warned that stiff penalties and imprisonment will be meted out against traders and business entities that will be engaging in profiteering and hoarding of petroleum products and other basic commodities as oil prices rise through the roof. Echoing an earlier injunction from the...
Listed firm SPC Power Corporation has asked the Energy Regulatory Commission’s (ERC) to reconsider the P4.024 million penalty it enforced on the forced outages" of its diesel power plant operated by subsidiary SPC Island Power Corporation that breached the limit allowed by the regulatory agency....
Consunji-led Sem-Calaca Power Corporation (SCPC) will file an appeal with the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on the penalties imposed by the regulator on the "forced outages" logged by its 600-megawatt Calaca coal-fired power plant in Batangas. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange...
Presidential aspirant and Manila Mayor Francisco “Isko Moreno” Domagoso said he is against the death penalty. During the DZBB “Ikaw Na Ba” presidential interview on Wednesday, Feb. 2, Domagoso was asked about his stance on the death penalty. “Siguro matanong natin sa ating sarili ito kung...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) has penalized the 600-megawatt Calaca coal-fired power facility of Sem-Calaca Power Corporation (SCPC) of the Consunji group due to excessive "forced outages" that it logged throughout its operations last year. In a recently issued ruling, the ERC said it...
Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno will push for the use of renewable energy in the country to lower power rates if he clinches a Senate seat in the May 2022 polls. Human rights lawyer Chel Diokno (Photo from Diokno’s campaign team) Diokno, a senatorial aspirant, lamented that consumers are always...
The board of administrators of the National Electrification Administration (NEA) has enforced 90-day suspension to the board of directors as well as officials of the Benguet Electric Cooperative (BENECO) allegedly due to their excessive benefits and allowances that they have been refusing to return...
Opposition Senator Leila de Lima has welcomed Senator Panfilo Lacson’s move to withdraw the bill he filed which seeks to reinstate the death penalty for heinous crimes. De Lima urged the Senate to instead give more push to the bill she filed which seeks to mete qualified reclusion perpetua to...
A subsidiary-company of SN Aboitiz Power Inc. (SNAP) has filed a motion for reconsideration on the fines imposed by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) on alleged ‘forced outage breach’ of its Ambuklao-Binga hydro power plant in Benguet. SNAP- Benguet said the regulator-enforced...
Prison cell The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines- Episcopal Commission on Prison Pastoral Care (CBCP-ECPPC) welcomed the recent pronouncement of Senators Panfilo Lacson and Vicente Sotto III that they are no longer supporting the restoration of death penalty. The CBCP said that this...
