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Sunday, May 11, 2008 |
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EDITORIAL
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Deciphering your Meralco bill
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THE government-Meralco war fails to electrify the country because
most of the issues are way above the head of the consumers. Apart
from their concern with rising electricity costs, the people have
difficulty relating to the other issues enveloping the controversy.
One of our columnists, for example, has
commented that the electricity distribution monopoly of the Manila
Electric Co. is “one of the most abstruse and esoteric”
businesses in the Philippines. There is “much fog” in the way
Meralco computes its electricity rates and in the language of the
law that regulates it.
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O T H E R C O L U M N S A
N D F E A T U R E S
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CENTER
OF GRAVITY
By Rony V. Diaz
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Green chemistry
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EVERY time Earth Day is celebrated, the chemical industry takes a
beating.
This year, opprobrium was heaped on plastics and
agricultural chemicals.
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SUNDAY
STORIES
By Marlen V. Ronquillo
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While the WTO is
pandering
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A sober voice from the developing world probably jolted a United
Nations (UN) forum a few days back by debunking the current
assumption that the current global food crisis is exclusively the
direct result of the following...
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ONE
MAN’S MEAT
By Benjamin G. Defensor
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Strategic
transparency
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ANOTHER President is going after the business empire founded by the
late Eugenio Lopez Sr. This is supposed to be what is behind the
demand of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS), a
part-owner of the Manila Electric Co. (Meralco), to the power
monopoly to compute its bills correctly.
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REFLECTIONS
By Fr. Shay Cullen
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Real fair trade works
directly with the poor
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Fair Trade week is a time to remember the global injustice that is
causing the food crisis everywhere. The landgrabbing to grow fuel
crops puts the vehicles of the rich before the hunger of the poor.
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ANALYSIS
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Americans try praying at
the pump for cheaper petrol
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WASHINGTON: At a Shell petrol station in Washington, Rocky Twyman
and an unusual group of activists were mad as hell about soaring
fuel prices.
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