+ Follow PEOPLE OPPOSED Tag
PEOPLE OPPOSED
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[ArticleID] => 1401515
[Title] => Group hits House for granting PNoy emergency power
[Summary] => Consumer group People Opposed to unWarranted Electricity Rates (Power) has decried the lower house's approval last night of a joint resolution, granting President Benigno Aquino III emergency powers to address a projected thinning of electricity reserves in the summer of 2015.
[DatePublished] => 2014-12-11 15:59:54
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[AuthorID] => 1262583
[AuthorName] => Dennis Carcamo
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/nation/20141210/houseqh.jpg
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[ArticleID] => 1382400
[Title] => Group lauds Congress for junking PNoy's power proposal
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A consumers' rights advocacy group on Monday welcomed the decision of the House Committee on Energy to junk the proposal granting emergency power to President Benigno Aquino III to enter into negotiated contract to rent or buy generating sets to address the looming power shortage.
[DatePublished] => 2014-10-20 16:40:20
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[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1262583
[AuthorName] => Dennis Carcamo
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20141010/power%20shortage.jpg
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[ArticleID] => 1375375
[Title] => Paggasta ng P6B sa aarkilahing generator sets binira ng POWER
[Summary] => Binatikos kahapon ng consumer group na People Opposed to Unwarranted Electricity Rates (POWER) ang pahayag ni Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla na malamang gumasta ang pamahalaan ng P6 na bilyon sa pag-arkila ng generating sets para mapunan ang tinatayang magiging kakulangan sa suplay ng kuryente sa susunod na taon.
[DatePublished] => 2014-10-02 00:00:00
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[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1096558
[AuthorName] => Butch M. Quejada
[SectionName] => Bansa
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[ArticleID] => 1370142
[Title] => Group: Blanket emergency power to PNoy dangerous
[Summary] => Consumer group People Opposed to Unwarranted Electricity Rates (Power) on Wednesday said that the emergency powers asked by President Benigno Aquino III from Congress to solve the looming energy crisis appears “vague, all-encompassing and therefore prone to abuse and corruption.”
[DatePublished] => 2014-09-17 17:30:31
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[AuthorID] => 1262583
[AuthorName] => Dennis Carcamo
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
[URL] => http://media.philstar.com/images/the-philippine-star/headlines/20140721/brown-out-no-power-blockout.jpg
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[ArticleID] => 60292
[Title] => VAT sa power ibasura!
[Summary] => Hiniling kahapon ng isang consumer group kay Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo na alisin na nito ang Value Added Tax (VAT) sa elektrisidad kung talagang seryoso itong ibaba ang power rates.
[DatePublished] => 2008-05-05 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1605495
[AuthorName] => Ni Rudy Andal
[SectionName] => Bansa
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[Title] => Napocor kinasuhan
[Summary] => Dahilan sa umano’y pagmamanipula sa halaga ng kuryente sa Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), sinampahan ng kasong kriminal ng grupong People Opposed to Warrantless Electricity Rates (POWER) ang National Power Corporation (Napocor).
[DatePublished] => 2008-05-02 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1334962
[AuthorName] => Gemma Amargo-Garcia
[SectionName] => Bansa
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[ArticleID] => 211946
[Title] => Palace asks burdened public for more patience on power costs
[Summary] => They ask a burdened public for more patience.
Malacañang asked yesterday the public to be more patient with the government’s seemingly futile efforts to bring down the cost of electricity in the country.
"Konting tiyaga na lang (Please have a little more patience)," Presidential Spokesman Ignacio Bunye said. According to him, President Arroyo is exerting all effort to solve the problem of high power rates.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-30 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1097338
[AuthorName] => Mayen Jaymalin
[SectionName] => Headlines
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[ArticleID] => 208370
[Title] => Meralco to implement 8.76¢ power rate hike starting today
[Summary] => Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) said yesterday it would implement starting today a rate incrase of 8.76 centavos per kilowatt hour.
The rise, approved by the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) late on Friday, would alleviate the loss making firm’s financial burden as it faces a court-ordered refund to customers of P30.05 billion for years of overbilling.
The increase would only apply to customers with a monthly consumption of 300 kwh and above.
[DatePublished] => 2003-06-01 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 181020
[Title] => Meralco pulls plug on Beltran for refusing to pay PPA
[Summary] => For refusing to pay the controversial purchase power adjustment (PPA) component of his electricity bill, it was lights out for party-list Rep. Crispin Beltran of Bayan Muna.
Beltran, chairman of the militant labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU), will have to go without electricity for now after four linemen from the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco) disconnected the electric service to his house located near Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City yesterday morning.
[DatePublished] => 2002-10-23 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 172986
[Title] => Central Luzon groups hit Palace on PPA
[Summary] => ANGELES CITY — Hundreds of people joined mass actions and caravans in four Central Luzon provinces yesterday to protest the failure of Malacañang to scrap the purchase power adjustment (PPA) from their electric bills.
Mass actions were held simultaneously in Pampanga, Tarlac, Bulacan and Nueva Ecija. A caravan snaked through five towns in Pampanga, while prayer rallies were staged in various parts of Bulacan with the participants later proceeding to Malolos for a bigger rally.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-22 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
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[SectionName] => Nation
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abtest
October 23, 2002 - 12:00am
August 22, 2002 - 12:00am
