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Hombrebueno said that the cost is much higher than the P2.12 per kwh Napocor selling rate for Luzon or the P2.24 per kwh rate for Visayas.


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                    [Title] => Judicial interference undermining power industry reforms
                    [Summary] => Power industry reforms may be undermined if the courts continue to issue adverse rulings, according to a private think tank.


"If this prevents us from moving forward with the needed reforms, we will suffer brownouts once again — and electricity consumers will be the ultimate losers," said Antonio Hombrebueno, chairman of the Foundation for National Development (FND).


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                    [Title] => Ensure Meralco improves service, group urges ERC
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"If they are true to their mandate as regulators, the ERC should assure consumers that this rate increase will translate to an enhanced reliability of electric power supply to our homes and business establishments," said FND chairman Antonio Hombrebueno.


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                    [Title] => NGO scores Enrile on power issue
                    [Summary] => A non-government organization scored yesterday former Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile for proposing amendments to the two-year Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) "based on wrong facts and without looking at the real intents of the law."


"Senator Enrile seemed to have gotten his facts wrong. I believe that he should stop barking up the wrong tree as this only compounds the problems already plaguing the country," the Foundation for National Development (FND) said.


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                    [Title] => NGO slams DOE for impending power crisis
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"Because of such inefficiency, we are now faced with these twin problems which could wreak havoc on the national economy and threatens our very survival as a nation," the Foundation for National Development (FND) said.


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                    [Title] => GMA urged to avert possible power crisis
                    [Summary] => President Arroyo must heed the advice of two opposition senators to avert an impending power crisis.


Antonio Hombrebueno, chairman of the Foundation for National Development (FND) issued this call as he lauded Senators Aquilino Pimentel and Tessie Aquino-Oreta who "have taken a realistic stand on key issues affecting the electric power industry."


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Antonio Hombrebueno, president of the Foundation for National Development (FND) said the results of epidemiological studies linked exposure to asbestos to certain forms of lung cancer and other lung ailments.


The International Agency for Research on Cancer also classified asbestos as known human carcinogen.

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Hombrebueno said that the cost is much higher than the P2.12 per kwh Napocor selling rate for Luzon or the P2.24 per kwh rate for Visayas.


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DOE hit for lease of costly gensets

March 5, 2004 - 12:00am

"They are resorting to desperate and costly measures." Thus declared Foundation for National Development (FND) chairman Antonio Hombrebueno, referring to the decision of the government and the Department...

Business

Judicial interference undermining power industry reforms

January 24, 2004 - 12:00am

Power industry reforms may be undermined if the courts continue to issue adverse rulings, according to a private think tank. "If this prevents us from moving forward with the needed reforms, we will suffer...

Headlines

Ensure Meralco improves service, group urges ERC

December 5, 2003 - 12:00am

The consumer advocacy group Foundation for National Development (FND) urged the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to ensure that Meralco delivers on promised system improvements, as a result of the recently granted...

Headlines

NGO scores Enrile on power issue

September 15, 2003 - 12:00am

A non-government organization scored yesterday former Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile for proposing amendments to the two-year Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) "based on wrong facts and without looking at the...

Business

NGO slams DOE for impending power crisis

June 2, 2003 - 12:00am

A non-government organization slammed yesterday the Department of Energy (DOE) for its alleged failure to avert an impending electricity shortage brought about by increasing demand and the lack of new investments...

Business

GMA urged to avert possible power crisis

May 5, 2003 - 12:00am

President Arroyo must heed the advice of two opposition senators to avert an impending power crisis. Antonio Hombrebueno, chairman of the Foundation for National Development (FND) issued this call as he lauded Senators...

Headlines

Alvarez urged to phase out asbestos for constructi

September 9, 2001 - 12:00am

A cause-oriented group urged yesterday the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Heherson Alvarez to approve and implement a proposed administrative order advocating the graded phase out...

Nation