{"id":5239,"date":"2016-03-14T14:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T06:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibon.org\/?p=5239"},"modified":"2016-03-14T14:05:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T06:05:14","slug":"mega-dams-profiteering-in-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/mega-dams-profiteering-in-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Dams: Profiteering in Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The circa 1970s Laiban dam has been recently revived supposedly to augment Metro Manila&#8217;s water supply that other dams cannot provide especially during dry months. Also, the last remaining hydro-electric government facility. Angat dam in Bulacan has been offered to bidders after the sale of Magat, Ambuklao-Binga and Pantabangan-Masiway to big private corporations in previous years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Large dams are touted by government as instruments of development by providing water supply, cheap energy, irrigation, and other functions for poor but water resources-rich countries like the Philippines. But the country&#8217;s experience with large dams has been damning, so to speak, as large dams have only benefited international financial institutions (IFIs), construction and power transnational corporations (TNCs), and even government bureaucrats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Mega Dams\/ Profiteering in Infrastructure\/ 15 &amp; 28 February 2010\/ IBON Facts &amp; Figures Special Release<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The circa 1970s Laiban dam has been recently revived supposedly to augment Metro Manila&#8217;s water supply that other dams cannot provide especially during dry months. Also, the last remaining hydro-electric government facility. Angat dam in Bulacan has been offered to bidders after the sale of Magat, Ambuklao-Binga and Pantabangan-Masiway to big private corporations in previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[1,107,102,108,9,38,7],"tags":[142,144,143,145],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5241,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5239\/revisions\/5241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibon.org\/tl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}