IBON Statement on the ASEAN Energy Business Forum

Oktubre 6, 2026

The most basic issue is who controls energy development, who benefits from it, and who pays the costs. This is why the energy question is not simply about the ASEAN Energy Business Forum’s narrow-minded fixation on making energy projects more profitable.

Energy advocates press for nationalized power system as ASEAN energy investors gather

Oktubre 6, 2026

Despite decades of privatization, Filipinos continue to face high electricity rates and energy insecurity, while private energy corporations expand their control over the sector.

EPIRA@25: Power reform failure

Hulyo 29, 2026

Twenty-five years after EPIRA’s enactment, the country’s experience points to the need for a fundamentally different approach to the power sector.

High time to end privatization behind high fees – SUKI

Hulyo 3, 2025

For years, privatization through government’s profit-driven PPPs have burdened the public with high user fees.

A history of power rate hikes and price rigging

Pebrero 12, 2019

Deregulating rates and privatizing power through EPIRA

Pebrero 12, 2019

A challenge to reverse power privatization

Hunyo 16, 2017

In 2001, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA) was enacted with the promise of delivering affordable and reliable electricity to the country. Sixteen years later, electricity remains expensive and unreliable, and electric power industry monopoly has intensified, further enriching big firms. The following points elaborate on why the Duterte administration should all the more […]

Megadams: unuseful, destructive–WPN

Marso 23, 2017

Ten thousand families in nine barangays inhabited by the Dumagat and Remontado indigenous peoples stand to be affected by the impending revival of the New Centennial Water Source Project (NCWS) in Rizal and Quezon In forums and activities held around international commemoration of people’s action for rivers and against large dams and in pursuit of […]

People-centered development vital for consumer rights

Marso 16, 2017

Prior to #WorldConsumerRightsDay, Filipino consumers including those for a #BetterDigitalWorld converged in a forum, expressed their woes and aspirations and vowed to continue working for #SocialEconomicChange Various consumer groups gathered in a conference last Monday in Quezon City to tackle the social and economic reforms needed to promote consumer welfare. The event participants recognized the […]