Reuters reports today that Mirant is raising $1.2 billion in foreign financing for their Sual and Pagbilao plants in the Philippines.
Hmmmm … I knew something was up. My phone has been ringing for the past week – callers from New York.
Reuters reports (for whatever that’s worth) that this represents half the estimated asset value.
$1.2 [...]
In my last post I used the word “advocate” in a key sentence. Well, today Ethan Zuckerman writes a phenomenal entry on how the internet (and yes, blogging) is changing how advocacy works in international development.
He suggests that the new model is “recognize and point” – i.e. instead of advocating on behalf of someone, [...]
Yesterday I spilled a lot of words about one thing – creating an architecture of participation.
So what exactly does that mean here in the Philippine energy sector? Let me try to chip away at it.
Johnny Moore was at the Market Research Society Conference in London yesterday where, as he noted, someone acknowledged that what [...]