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pioneer · « **on:** September 13, 2007, 05:17:18 PM »

By Ric V. Obedencio
The Bohol Chronicle

The Sangguniang Panlalawigan of Bohol has planned of filing injunction case in court to block the imposition of electric rates increase sought by the Bohol Light Company, Inc. (BLCI).

Vice-Gov. Julius Caesar Herrera, who presided over the 11th regular session of the SP yesterday, proposed the filing of said court action approved by the body as a concrete action to respond to the growing complaints against the increase.

This came after provincial board member Alfonso Damalerio II said that BLCI will implement this week the 25 centavos per kilowatt-hour increase of power rates per information he got from BLCI manager Engr. Noel Alingig.

Damalerio called Monday a meeting of his committee attended by Alingig to tackle the increase of power rates.

Herrera instantly formed an interim committee and appointed Board Member Aster Piollo as chairperson with a blanket authority to select her members. Herrera said the task of committee is to explore possibilities to file court injunction that could virtually prevent BLCI or ERC to implement the said increase.

Aside from this, the lawmakers approved Damalerio's proposed Resolution urging the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) to hold the third and final public hearing in this city instead in Manila scheduled next month on said increase of power rates.

Public utilities committee chaired by Damalerio was visibly irked when his committee seemed shortchanged when ERC hold the second public hearing on September 7, 2007 in the morning instead of 2 PM on the same day as posted on its website.

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thegirlnextdoor · « **Reply #1 on:** September 19, 2007, 03:36:29 PM »

I do not recall them saying a meeting was at 2pm I remember them saying in the Am hours on or around 9 or 10 am for the 6th, and I do not see Ae or Ric at the hearing that I attended? I also did not see many media persons at all showwing up until way later when the meeting was just to wrap up?
I do recall putting a date in my write up but the time I did not as they had said around 9am it would of gotten under way as close as the commissioners could get there on the first in coming boat from Cebu. The date was set for the 6th at the last hearing prior to the hearing held on Sept, 7th? Even I was surprised all together why it was that it was held on the 7th and not the sixth as planned?

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