CDA, Ating Koop Party to hold power forum in Surigao City

By Fryan E. Abkilan

Saturday 9th of June 2012

SURIGAO CITY, June 8 (PIA) -- The Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) and Ating Koop Party List will hold a Power Forum on Monday, June 11, at the City Cultural Center, City Hall Compound, this city.

CDA Caraga Director Manuel Pelaez said the one-day event seeks to address the looming privatization of the government-owned Agus-Pulangi Hydropower Complex and power shortage in Mindanao.

Pelaez also said the occasion will be attended by millionaire cooperatives, with speakers from the Department of Energy, National Association of Electric Consumers for Reforms, Ating Koop Partylist representative, Cong. Isidro Q. Lico, and CDA officials from Manila.

A press conference with the members of the local media will then follow right after the conduct of the said forum. It was learned that a similar event will also be conducted on June 19 in Butuan City. (FEA-PIA 13, Surigao del Norte)