Press Release
January 13, 2014

STATEMENT OF SEN. SONNY ANGARA
ON EMERGENCY POWERS FOR PNOY

Does the government need emergency powers to fast track new power plants? Probably not, but issue is worth looking into. It is important for us not to forget history. When we gave emergency powers in the 90s, we ended up with much-criticized take-or-pay provisions where government and the people ended up paying for unused power. At the time, we were thankful to have more, albeit expensive power as alternative to no power and blackouts. But I think we should be smarter now.

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