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Govt’s inaction worsens power crisis in Mindanao Volume IV, No. 139 web portal: www.mindanaodailynews.com
Mon-Tue November 2-3, 2015
By Mike Baños Editor at large
Bambi acts on plight of prosecutors
WELL before Mindanao was expected to plunge into another age of darkness due to the worsening El Niño episode that’s been confirmed to be worse than the devastating 1997 edition, man-made security issues have already forced distribution utilities in MIndanao to resume rotating brownouts. Sources from the police and armed forces in the area confirmed that Transmission Towers 19 and 20 located in Patani, Marawi City along the Agus 2-Kibawe line were bombed
By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
MISAMIS Oriental––Provincial governor Yevgeny Vincente Emano has ordered the provincial engineer to institute measures to upgrade the office of the provincial prosecutor here. Aside from adopting remedial measures See PLIGHT, page A11
Blackouts hit Davao
THE Aboitiz-owned Davao Light and Power Company has started implementing two-hour rotating power interruptions after the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP) imposed a Mindanao-wide deficit due to the emergency shutdown of two major power plants in Mindanao. The NGCP implemented a Mindanao-wide grid curtailment due to the derated capacity of Pulangi and Agus Hydropower plants due to low water elevation See blackouts, page A11
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Mayoral candidate Rep. Rufus B. Rodriguez (left) and Mr. Cheng Cheng Lee (with mic) of the Taiwan Association of the Philippines, deliver messages to the 5,000 urban poor families in Cagayan De Oro City. The Taiwanese association donates sack of rice to the urban poor through the initiative of Rodriguez and Party List Rep. Maxie Rodriguez, of ABAMIN, who is also running for Congress in the city’s Second District here. KD
Tribal people denounce atrocities, yearn for peace By CRIS DIAZ Executive Editor
IMPASUG-ONG, Bukidnon--About 1,000 “Lumads” of various tribes lighted candles on the occasion of the National Indigenous
People’s Month in this tribal capital of Northern Mindanao, the military said. Capt. Norman M. Tagros, the spokesperson of the army’s 8th Infantry Battalion, said that the Lumads (tribal natives) simultane-
ously lighted the candles to dramatize the quest for lasting peace in the tribal communities in Mindanao. The Lumads also denounced the atrocious killings of the tribal See peace, page A11
around 9:20 p.m. on Thursday (October 29, 2015) and both put out of commission. As a result, the Mindanao Grid has lost power supply from both the Agus 1 (80MW) and Agus 2 (180MW) hydroelectric power plants since other lines for grid connections have already decommissioned due to trees and other obstructions deliberately planted by landowners in District 2, Lanao del Sur. The loss of 260MW from the Mindanao Grid will mean the resumption of rotating brownouts all across the island even See inaction, page A7