He’s President Noynoy Aquino’s second cousin, no less.
“Former congressman Mark Cojuangco says had the government started running the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in 2010, the country could have prevented an impending power crisis next year,” reports ABS-CBN News correspondent Alvin Elchico on ABS-CBNnews.com.
Cojuangco, who is identified as a “staunch nuclear power advocate,” appealed to President Aquino to “make the reopening of Bataan nuclear plant his legacy in his remaining years in office.”
Cojuangco explained that would take four years to restart the BNPP.
The report noted: “The BNPP was ready for operation since 1985. The government paid more than US$2 billion including interest. It was fully paid in 2007. However, despite the enormous cost, consumers have not been able to benefit from the 620-megawatt plant.”
Bataan vice governor Efren Pascual says “the provincial government has not made a decision on the reopening of the BNPP since it still wants to hear all sides of the arguments made by pro- and anti-nuclear power advocates.”
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