{"id":67946,"date":"2025-06-10T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/?p=67946"},"modified":"2025-06-12T23:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T15:31:11","slug":"greenpeace-statement-on-the-passage-of-the-nuclear-bill-in-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/press\/67946\/greenpeace-statement-on-the-passage-of-the-nuclear-bill-in-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Statement on the passage of the nuclear bill in the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Quezon City<\/em> \u2014 The Philippines Senate has approved Senate Bill 2899, which aims to establish a legal framework for the utilization of nuclear energy in the country. Reacting to this, Greenpeace Philippines campaigner, Khevin Yu, said:<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWe strongly condemn the Senate\u2019s reckless and rushed approval of the nuclear energy bill. This move disregards public safety, environmental integrity, and the historical lessons from catastrophic nuclear failures.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cNuclear energy is dangerous. No matter how many promised safety measures are put in place, the truth remains: nuclear accidents can and do happen. Chernobyl and Fukushima are not distant memories\u2014they are warnings. To ignore these disasters is to gamble with the lives of millions of Filipinos and the health of our environment for generations to come.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThese risks are not padded by lower cost, as proponents of nuclear energy would have us believe, especially when considering the costs of acquiring and disposing of fuel, construction, and operation nuclear power proves to be one of the costliest sources of energy. It is estimated to have a levelized cost of electricity of 140-222 USD per megawatt-hour (MWh), compared to 29-92 USD MWh for renewable energy. To add nuclear to our current energy-mix which is already reliant on fuel imports would be putting us at the mercy of foreign interests who would think nothing of the safety and wellbeing of Filipino communities.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWe have abundant, indigenous renewable energy sources\u2014such as solar, wind, and hydro\u2014that are safe, cleaner, and more sustainable. These options can power our country without the risks associated with nuclear technology, and therefore are more deserving of attention and resources.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cGreenpeace is calling on the Senate to repeal the bill before we are locked into a path we will regret in the future. We call on President Marcos to abandon nuclear plans and instead focus on putting the Philippines on the path to 100% renewable energy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n<p><strong>For requests for interviews and other information, please contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p><strong>James Relativo<\/strong>, Communications Campaigner<br>Greenpeace Southeast Asia &#8211; Philippines<br>james.relativo@greenpeace.org | +63919  069 3424 (Viber &amp; WhatsApp)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenpeace is calling on the Senate to repeal the nuclear energy bill before we are locked into a path we will regret in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":11911,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[6,7],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-67946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-sustainability","tag-climate","tag-energy","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67946","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=67946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67949,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67946\/revisions\/67949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67946"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/philippines\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=67946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}