Bulacan Governor Daniel R. Fernando has expressed full support for the Supreme Court’s issuance of a Writ of Kalikasan and a Temporary Environmental Protection Order (TEPO) against quarrying operations in the Angat River–Bustos Dam Watershed. In a statement released Sunday by the Provincial...
Several groups advocating for clean energy technologies in greenfield power projects have asked the Supreme Court to junk Executive Order No. 30 issued by former President Rodrigo in 2017. In a statement to the media, Center for Energy, Ecology, and Development (CEED) said a petition has been filed...
Proposed joint oil exploration at WPS seen hitting snag By MYRNA M. VELASCO The targeted joint oil and gas exploration at the diplomatically-contested West Philippine Sea could end up to be a "dead proposition, that is, if the country has to take its cue from the recent decision of the Supreme...
The Supreme Court has validated the divestment of the 103-megawatt IIigan diesel power facility to Conal Holdings Corporation (CHC), a subsidiary of the Alcantara-led Alsons Power Corporation. A recent ruling by the high court upheld the approval granted by the Commission on Audit (COA) on the sale...
The Philippine Electricity Market Corporation (PEMC), the governance body of the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), said legal questions still hound the claim of Independent Electricity Market Operator of the Philippines (IEMOP) that it was already duly sanctioned by the high court as...
The Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) is rigidly scrutinizing the power supply agreements (PSAs) entered into by distribution utilities (DUs) in its bid to strictly disallow ‘overcontracting’ in the electricity supply procurements of regulated power utilities. “Our priorities now, we are...
