AS an avid reader of The Manila Times, I join the millions in commemorating its years of service to the nation by bringing up unbridled news in its daily mission. Its advocacy on economic growth issues rather than the personal and political issues many other newspapers still delve into, practically makes it a catalyst in rebuilding our nation that was savaged for more than two years by the Covid-19 pandemic and aggravated quite lately by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

I cite the following: the October 1 issue's editorial, "Renewable energy," where the executive director of the International Energy Agency (lEA) Eatih Birol was quoted: "There is a renewable energy economy that is rapidly growing around the world" and that cost, efficiency and the ease of constructing the sources makes the most economic sense; the October 4 issue headline, "Green energy open to foreigners – DoJ," quoting Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla that the constitutional foreign ownership restrictions on the exploration, development and utilization of natural resources only covers things that are susceptible to appropriation, thus excluding the sun, the wind and ocean; the October 5 issue editorial, "DoE's rational approach to nuclear energy "raises reader's awareness of another kind of renewable energy — nuclear energy. This should remind us of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) that was built by the late president Ferdinand Marcos Sr. that could have paved the way for the Philippines to have energy self-sufficiency a long time ago had not presumptive president Corazon Aquino just wasted it for her own personal reason; and finally, the October 6 issue editorial, "DoJ ruling on green energy a potential boon for PH," concludes that the Philippines represents a tantalizing market for energy investments, first, because it clearly has a great deal of unmet demand for energy, and second, because it is ideally situated to harness solar, wind and ocean resources.

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