November 7, 2016

Regulatory Capture 103 or Corruption in Government Agencies 101

By David A. Tauli, Mindanao Coalition of Power Consumers In response to the proposal by the MCPC for member-consumers of electric cooperatives to file criminal charges at regional trial courts against their EC officers and against the ERC commissioners for […]
October 29, 2016

Guest Post: Can consumers ever organize?

By: Cielito F. Habito – October 18, 2016, 12:19 AM from Philippine Daily Inquirer How can companies providing various goods and services that are part of our daily lives keep getting away with practices amounting to abuse and exploitation of their consumers—the very […]
October 28, 2016

Guest Post: Asserting our consumer rights

By: Cielito F. Habito –  October 25, 2016, 12:13 AM from Philippine Daily Inquirer Forty-five years ago, the last week of October was declared Consumer Protection Week, as a period for planning and enforcement of government action toward controlling fraudulent trade practices […]
October 13, 2016

P41.8 Billion Reasons Why We must Distinguish Clean Energy from Renewable Energy

David Celestra Tan, MSK 12 October 2016 Solar lobby groups continue to push for the Philippines to adopt Renewable Energy as a national energy policy target. Many Legislators and policy makers automatically mouth Renewable Energy as a sacred goal for […]