Mindanao Daily NEWS
Volume II, No. 152
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Friday
December 13, 2013
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northmin . westmin . caraga . davao Your Mindanao-wide Community Newspaper
Misor, ill-advice on coal issue By DAVID A. TAULI
THE question of what the people of Mindanao will choose for their supply of electricity will be answered from 2017 onward, when adequate capacity from either coal or hydro will be available in Mindanao. Since the price of bulk power
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from hydro resources will be less than four pesos per kilowatt-hour, and more than five pesos per kWh from coal, there is no question as to the economic choice of the Mindanao power consumers.
But even if the market prices for hydro were higher than for coal, people in Mindanao should choose hydro because coal would be much more expensive than hydro when the environmental and social costs of the alternatives are added to the market prices. See COAL, page 7
1 dead, 3 hurt as reds, cops fight in B’non By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor, GERRY L. GORIT Correspondent and MILDRED TORREJAS Correspondent
C AG AYA N d e O r o City––About 100 armed communist rebels of the New People’s Army (NPA) overran a police station command in Kibawe, Bukidnon Thursday morning killing a police officer and wounding three others, a military report said.
NEW STORE OPENS TODAY. Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) listed Puregold Price Club, Inc. (PGOLD) will open its store to the public starting today (December 13, 2013). PGOLD, chain of supermarkets in the Philippines established in 1998, is located along Lapasan Highway, Cagayan de Oro City. photo by: lovely casenas
See full story on page 2
LUCKY CHILD. Rep. Juliette Uy of the second district of Misamis Oriental and her husband, Villanueva town Mayor Julio T. Uy, crown Ashley Justine Kay Pagaling after winning the crown of the just-held search for Little Miss Villanueva 2013. The contest serves as one of the highlights of the town fiesta of Villanueva in honor of its patron saint, Our Lady of Guadalupe. Photo courtesy of Dodo Canoy
Councilor calls for probe on garbage collection in Oro CAGAYAN de Oro City–– The city council’s committee on health and sanitation has asked an investigation into the unsanitary collection of
‘No common pattern on slay of three mediamen’
Philippine National Police (PNP) chief, Director General Alan Purisima, said on Thursday that three garbage in the city. City Councilor Dante Special Investigation Task Pajo said on Thursday that Groups (SITG) looking into three separate incidents of he has been receiving violence involving media See probe, page 11 personnel in Bukidnon, Surigao and Davao recently, do not see any common pattern among the cases. Purisima said the Directorate for Investigation and Detective Management (DIDM) thru Task Force USIG is keeping tab of all ongoing investigation into cases of violence committed against working journalists. See PATTERN, page 11
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