My column today: Good as geothermal is, it is not totally benign. Specially with the use of fracking technology, it faces the same concern about triggering earthquakes. In 2006, a pilot geothermal plant in Switzerland caused a magnitude 3.4 earthquake. philstar.com/business/2024/…

Why havent we heard from the Philippine Medical Association?

WASHINGTON - Phl, US conclude 11th Bilateral Security Dialogue. New deals include collaboration to counter 'foreign information manipulation' surrounding the West Philippine Sea issue, says Philippine Ambassador to US Jose 'Babe' Romualdez in a briefing here The Philippine Star

My column today: we are not yet at the stage that will allow us to start replacing coal power plants performing baseload duties with renewables like wind and solar. no new power plants went on line during Duterte’s time. philstar.com/business/2024/…

My column today: Geothermal energy is the only domestic energy resource other than hydro that could be used as baseload for our power grid. philstar.com/business/2024/…

My column today: According to the DOE, 50 percent of our installed capacity comes from power plants that are 20 years old or older. Old coal plants require more maintenance but even that cannot help avert unplanned outages, as we have experienced. philstar.com/business/2024/…

ON the other hand, these surveys are just telling us the sad state of our people’s mindset these days. They are not saying DepEd is well managed but they like the head. Shows continuing political clout of the Duterte dynasty.

A Babbler reports that Pangilinan is trying to convince his business partner, bilyonaryo Ramon S. Ang, to join MPI and Sumitomo in proposing a solution for Metro Manila's traffic problems to President Bongbong Marcos.

Read it here: bilyonaryo.com/2024/04/16/qui…

My column today: Duterte was very deferential to Xi Jinping. But Duterte’s tragedy is that China didn’t take him seriously to deliver on promises of economic support. Not even the railroad in Davao, Duterte’s pet project, was delivered by China. philstar.com/business/2024/…

Arent they on healthy Mediterranean diet? What happened with all those deaths?

NO TO 'STRATEGIC GASLIGHTING':

1. It was CHINA's actions that FORCED the Philippines' hands, not the other way around;

2. ASEAN was just as 'USELESS' when AQUINO took CHINA to international court, so stop invoking DUTERTE era as an EXCUSE;

3. LACK of CHINESE INVESTMENTS in the…

My column today: Social media has made it impossible for the high and mighty to use PR or other means to exert pressure to suppress an unfavorable news report. So many people are out there ready to use social media and will not be censored. philstar.com/business/2024/…

Grabe ito!

My column today: Abuse of our watersheds has resulted in more difficult times. The El Niño phenomenon we are experiencing now has become unnecessarily more severe for our agriculture sector because of our bara-bara way of utilizing our natural resources. philstar.com/business/2024/…

Calls for a Senate ethics Committee investigation

The country’s capital remains the laggard in the region as it slid six places to 121st place out of 142 cities in the 2024 edition of the Smart City Index by the Switzerland-based International Institute for Management Development (IMD).

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My column today: The bad news is that for the bottom 30 percent of our population, rice contributed 84.3 percent to the food inflation rate they are feeling. inflation for the poorest 30 percent is at 4.6 percent, higher than the 3.7 percent national rate. philstar.com/business/2024/…

My column today: “The country’s most urgent priority now is obviously to look for an indigenous replacement for the depleting Malampaya, which requires exploration drilling that itself is costly and financially risky….” philstar.com/business/2024/…

This certainly won’t help… :(

My column today: Maybe the problem in Clark’s development is the overlapping bureaucracy. There’s CDC, CIAC and BCDA. There are also local politicians in CDC who may not have the national perspective to appreciate the real value of Clark to the country. philstar.com/business/2024/…