Remembering ’85 Welgang Bayan vs. BNPP Draw Thousands to Bataan

21Jun09

“Ayaw namin ng Nukleyar” this was the sentiment running through the hundreds of green-clad anti-BNPP gathered to commemorate the historic Welgang Bayan Laban sa Plantang Nukleyar of 1985.
According to Nuclear Free Bataan Movement Chairperson Monsignor Tony Dumaual, the 1985 Welgang Bayan (WB) represents the vigor with which Filipinos fought against the commissioning of the Bataan [...]

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Tags: Balanga, Bataan, KPD, NFBM, Welgang Bayan

Join Us in Commemorating June 20 Welgang Bayan

16Jun09

On June 20, 1985, the province of Bataan was witness to the biggest protest-action directed against the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP), also known as the infamous “Monster of Morong”.
That day was the tail-end of a three-day protest dubbed Welgang Bayan Laban sa Plantang Nukleyar that drew an estimated 33,000 concerned Filipinos [...]

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Tags: 1985, NFBM, Welgang Bayan

KEPCO “feasibility study” for BNPP rehab: a P100 million zarzuela

05Jun09

Rep. Mark Cojuangco’s pet bill H.B. 6300 on the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) has been scheduled by the House of Representatives for plenary debates when it reconvenes in July.
Incongruously, while the bill appropriates P100 million “for the conduct and completion of a validation/feasibility study to determine the viability of rehabilitating, commissioning and commercially operating” [...]

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Tags: feasibility study, KEPCO, Mark Cojuangco, Philippine Greens

‘BNPP bill, sponsorship speech poorly thought out, conceived’

04Jun09

Transformation from a free two-year study into a P100-million ten-month study highly suspicious
As Pangasinan Rep. Mark Cojuangco successfully brought his pet bill calling for the “immediate rehabilitation and commissioning” of the controversial Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) at the House plenary Wednesday night, the Freedom from Debt Coalition said the sponsorship speech was as faulty [...]

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Tags: Mark Cojuangco, Plenary

Greenpeace Statement on Mark Cojuangco’s sponsorship speech of HB 6300

04Jun09

Greenpeace today condemned Cong. Mark Cojuangco’s underhanded attempt to railroad the passage of the HB 6300 at the Lower House that seeks to commission the obsolete, mothballed and therefore dangerous Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP). Click here to read more

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Tags: HB 6300, Lower House, Mark Cojuangco

Sneaky maneuvers to bring BNPP bill to plenary thwarted; Discussion ends before it starts

01Jun09

The bill to “rehabilitate and commission” the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) reached the floor of the House on Monday, June 1, amid diminishing interest in the project and growing skepticism that it would ever reach formal deliberation.  However, the bill was returned to the House Energy Committee following an intervention by Bataan Rep. Albert [...]

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Tags: Bills, Congress, Mark Conjuangco, Plenary