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ELECTRIC COOP SITES CAN BE USED AS VACCINATION AREAS – POWER BLOC

Electric cooperatives (ECs) have offered their sites as mass vaccination areas to help the national government and local government units (LGUs) ensure proper and orderly roll out of the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination plans.   In his privilege speech delivered during Tuesday’s session (February 9, 2021), Assistant Minority Leader and Association of Philippine Electric Cooperatives (APEC) […]

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Government

NEW DOUBTS, FEARS OVER ‘UNDERHANDED’ ENTRY OF PRIVATE GROUPS IN POWER SECTOR – ELECTRIC COOPS

Two of the biggest electric cooperative (EC) groups in the country expressed grave concerns over the “publicity-driven” attempts of a private for-profit entity wanting to enter the power sector to “paint itself as a savior of rural electrification,” in what they tagged as a “concerted drive to undermine grassroots people’s organizations deeply embedded in the […]