{"id":3931,"date":"2019-11-22T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T23:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/?p=3931"},"modified":"2021-12-01T20:39:23","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T12:39:23","slug":"dirty-business-how-coal-expansion-of-the-philippines-biggest-energy-companies-are-hindering-the-countrys-transition-to-a-low-carbon-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/publication\/3931\/dirty-business-how-coal-expansion-of-the-philippines-biggest-energy-companies-are-hindering-the-countrys-transition-to-a-low-carbon-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirty Business: How coal expansion of the Philippines\u2019 biggest energy companies are hindering the country\u2019s transition to a low carbon future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Coal expansion by the Philippines\u2019 biggest energy companies will hinder the country\u2019s transition to a low carbon future, and can lock the Philippines into at least two more decades of overreliance on fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n<p>This briefing paper details how four of the country\u2019s biggest energy companies\u2014San Miguel Corporation (SMC); Aboitiz &amp; Co., Inc. (Aboitiz); Meralco PowerGen Corporation (Mgen); and DMCI Holdings, Inc. (DMCI)\u2014are set to substantially increase their coal portfolios, more than doubling the country\u2019s current coal capacity should all their proposed coal projects push through.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/11\/08264045-dirty-business.pdf\">Download the Dirty Business briefing paper here <\/a><\/div>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\t\t\t<section\n\t\t\tclass=\"boxout post-30 \"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Image\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"cover-card-overlay\"\n\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/act\/support-clean-energy\/\" \n\t\t\t><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-1024x683.jpg\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip-510x340.jpg 510w, https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-philippines-stateless\/2019\/05\/3c7d1d74-gp0stpoip.jpg 1200w\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 358px, (min-width: 780px) 313px, 88px\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"Children at Wind Farm in Guimaras, Philippines. \u00a9 Veejay Villafranca \/ Greenpeace\" title=\"Children at Wind Farm in Guimaras, Philippines. \u00a9 Veejay Villafranca \/ Greenpeace\"\n\t\t\t\t\/>\n            \t\t\t<div class=\"boxout-content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"boxout-heading medium\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-action=\"Title\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\thref=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/act\/support-clean-energy\/\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSupport clean energy\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"boxout-excerpt\">Renewable energy is the key to our country&#8217;s energy independence. But coal companies and politicians are holding us back. <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t                                    <a\n                        class=\"btn btn-primary\"\n                        data-ga-category=\"Take Action Boxout\"\n                        data-ga-action=\"Call to Action\"\n                        data-ga-label=\"n\/a\"\n                        href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/act\/support-clean-energy\/\"\n                        \n                    >\n                        TAKE ACTION\n                    <\/a>\n                \t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/section>\n\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coal expansion by the Philippines\u2019 biggest energy companies will hinder the country\u2019s transition to a low carbon future, and can lock the Philippines into at least two more decades of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":3932,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"<p>Coal expansion by the Philippines\u2019 biggest energy companies will hinder the country\u2019s transition to a low carbon future<\/p>","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"not set","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"not set","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"p4-page-type":[15],"class_list":["post-3931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability","p4-page-type-publication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11246,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3931\/revisions\/11246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3931"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=3931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}