LIKE FATHER LIKE SON – Senator Bong Marcos maintained that he is all for the putting up of nuclear plants if that is good for the country, to bring down the cost of electricity of which the country has about the highest if not the highest in Asia.

We asked him point blank after he addressed the District Congress of Barangay Health Workers in Urdaneta City – Will he push for the revival of the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant built by his father if elected? The senator said “yes” but pointed out that the BNPP built by the Westinghouse is no longer the same as it was when it was built some 40 years ago with many of its vital parts now missing and therefore cannot be made functional anymore.

He shares the advocacy of former Fifth District Congressman Mark Cojuangco who to this day, while he is gunning for the highest position in Pangasinan, has not stopped drumming up support for the revival of the 600-megawatt BNPP and the construction of other similar facilities in other feasible areas of the country in order to lower the cost of electricity which, he said, is the one discouraging local and foreign investors.

Their line of thinking, however, runs counter to that of then Energy Secretary Jericho “Ikot” Petilla, now LP senatorial candidate, who said risking the health of the people of Manila and Central Luzon for just few centavos of savings in electricity per kilowatt is not worth it. He recalled the leak at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant after Japan was shook by a high magnitude earthquake few years ago.

Without a doubt, the proposal to establish nuclear plants in the country, especially, in Pangasinan, will remain too controversial to reach a consensus. Leonardo Micua

 

BSL AS SUBSTITUTE — “Boss, is it true that ex-Mayor Benjie will substitute Manang for mayor come December 10?” my very inquisitive barber asked me while he was cutting my hair.

“How do you know that?”, I asked although I heard this earlier from another source.

“Yan ang balita-balita,” he muttered.

“I told him, if Benjie is going to substitute for his wife, then the family knows that Manang cannot fight Mayor Belen.”

“Probably,” he said, feeling cocksure that BSL about his information

“Well, it will be a return bout with Mayor Belen who knocked him out in their first battle in 2013,” I said.

“Yes, it will be another helluva fight in Dagupan, pitting both their Magic and CSI resources,” he said.

“But are you sure, Benjie is already well enough to withstand the rigors of the campaign granting he recovered from a stroke?” I asked him.

“Maybe, boss, because if he’s not, his family will surely not let him do it.”.

“Have you seen the former mayor in the flesh?” “Not me boss, but some others swear they saw him somewhere. ”

End of the conversation. Leonardo Micua

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