Monthly Archives: August 2006

Mirant & Some Numbers

As discussed here and here, sale of Mirant’s Philippine assets is apparently being driven by investors, particularly the hedge fund Pirate Capital, that are not happy with with management’s $8 billion unsolicited bid to to take over NRG and the low performance of Mirant stock.
This is just one component of several other stockholders’ initiatives to [...]

Origins and Birth of Philippine Hydropower

MLQ3, whom I’ve called a national treasure because of his triple threat:

sense of history
access to history
passion about history

provides us this important 16 page memoir of Hugh Casey who came to the Philippines in 1937.
Wow. Fascinating.

Transco Bid Date Re-Set

PSALM "re" sets the bid date for Transco to November 7, 2006.  That’s a six week delay from the date announced about ten weeks ago.