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Ferdinand Marcos' last words to Cory Aquino was hoping she would open the Bataan Power Plant (she wouldn't out of spite) and prophetically claimed it would doom the Philippines twenty years later for ignoring this request. Was this in hindsight the move that would have been beneficial for the country in the long run?

Unfortunately, the answer is ,YES,. During Marcos’ reign, he built the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant to decrease the Philippines’ electricity costs and decrease the dependence on imported coal and crude oil. The 1973 oil crisis was a wake up call to Pres. Ferdinand Marcos. It is the first nuclear power plant in Southeast Asia. This should have helped the Philippine economy (especially the manufacturing industry) today. The power plant was built between 1976 and 1984 but stopped temporarily in 1979 due to the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident in Pennsylvania, USA. The plant was completed in 1984 and officially passed the safety standards of the International Atomic Energy Agency from Vienna, Austria in 1985. While the plant is ongoing inspection and a few touchups and installations of some components, Pres. Marcos and his family were ousted and kicked out by the useless 1986 People Power Revolution which was started by the housewife named Corazon C. Aquino, the wife of the assassinated-Sen. Ninoy Aquino and her oligarchs. After that, she abandoned and mothballed the BNPP project, which was about to commence its operations. That useless event was two months before the 1986 Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine (which was part of the Soviet Union during that time). A year later, Marcos told Aquino about refusing to open BNPP: F. E. Marcos, (1987): “Ang kabilin-bilinan ko kay Mrs. Corazon Aquino na ipagtuloy ang Bataan Nuclear Power Plant kung maaari. Sapagkat, I told her that this is the solution in meeting energy demands and decreasing dependence on imported oil. Ngunit…ayaw niyang tanggapin ang aking mungkahi at maaalala daw ng taong bayan si Marcos habang nandyan ang Bataan Nuclear Power Plant. Anong klaseng pag-iisip yan? Iyan ang paghihigante. Wag mo idamay ang sambayanang Filipino. E di balang araw, makikita ninyo. Twenty years from now, bagsak na ang Pilipinas.” (“My order to Mrs. Corazon Aquino is to continue the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, if needed. It’s because this is the solution in meeting energy demands and decreasing demands on imported oil. However…she refused to accept my suggestion and remember the native people about Marcos while the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is there. What kind of thinking is that? That’s just revenge. Don’t incriminate the native Filipinos. One day, you will see. Twenty years from now, the Philippines fell.”) See what happened? This is the epitome of crab mentality. It’s the most insulting sin in Filipino culture. An insult to patriotism and nationalism. The Aquinos and their hidden agenda even sold away the BNPP’s reactors and other major components. Manila Electric Company (Meralco) was government-owned, but Cory sold it to the oligarchic Lopezes (also the owners of ABS-CBN). Since the Lopezes have no experience in nuclear power, they just let the ordinary Filipinos suffer the black-outs and higher costs scot free. The Lopez-run Meralco don’t give a fuck about the situation. They are hellishly greedy and capitalistic. Same goes with the water and internet services. These resulted to poor infrastructure. Philippine electricity is the most expensive in Southeast Asia because it still relies heavily on imported fossil fuels, mostly coal and crude oil. Even Marcos died in 1989, his children, senadors Imee and Bongbong followed his legacy. Imee’s plan for solar energy came true. Bongbong’s wind farm was established in 2005. The Philippines was the first in Southeast Asia to have solar and wind energy. (wikipedia, 2021) After the assassination of Sen. Ninoy Aquino in the Manila International Airport in 1983, the Philippine economy dropped. Some anti-Marcos critics blamed Marcos for his corruption through paying the BNPP. Marcos wants the project to complete on time. The plant is completed in 1984 and it passed inspection in 1985. Twenty years from what Marcos said (which is 2007); the Philippine manufacturing industry almost collapsed, even under the Pres. Gloria Arroyo reign. Marcos was right. The Philippines’ progress began to decline. It became import-oriented since the second half of the 2000s. Here are a few foreign multinational and transnational companies that closed their Philippine factories due to expensive electricity and water since they are controlled by greedy, capitalistic oligarchs: Toto ,(factory closed in 2007): (Archived news about Toto’s closure is not available but it is based on Toto’s integrated reports of 2006 and 2007) Toto Philippines is a joint venture of Toto and Mariwasa (PH tile manufacturer). Their plant opened in 1995 in Sto. Tomas, Batangas but later closed in 2007. They make sanitary wares like lavatories and toilets. Colgate-Palmolive Philippines, (factory closed in 2008): The closure of the Colgate-Palmolive Makati plant in August 2008 is caused by expensive electricity and water. As a result, most Colgate toothpastes and mouthwash are imported from Thailand. Colgate toothbrushes are imported from Vietnam and mostly China. Palmolive and Tender Care products are also imported from Thailand. Axion and Ajax products are imported from Malaysia. I did not know that news at the same year when my mom and I visited the Lamoiyan (manufacturer of Hapee toothpastes) plant in Paranaque. I was in second grade at that time. Intel Philippines ,(factory closed in 2009): Intel closed their plant in Gen. Trias, Cavite; due to cost-cutting (due to 2007–08 Global Financial Crisis) and expensive electricity. They also closed one plant in Malaysia and two in the United States. The only Intel manufacturers in Asia are China and Vietnam. Good-Year ,(factory closed in 2009): The Goodyear tire plant in Las Pinas was the nearest tire factory to cater the 4 car factories in Sta. Rosa, Laguna; and one in Cainta, Rizal. Due to its closure, the only local tire factory left is the Yokohama plant in Clark, Pampanga. Despite the fire incident on May 14, 2017, the plant still remained operational as of now. And now,, Nissan Philippines ,(factory closed in 2021): Expensive electricity is also the cause of Nissan’s factory closure, so as the lack of the steel plant. It would have been better if they manufacture the newer Nissan Almera, as well as the Navara, Terra and Urvan (just like the old days). Some of the MNC factories in the Philippines like P&G Cabuyao plant and Isuzu Binan plant had to take out one product out of their local plant due to expensive electricity, which affects their production costs and efficiency. P&G no longer manufacture Downy fabric conditioners packed in bottles. Instead, they are imported from VIetnam, leaving only the sachet and pouch Pinoy-made. And Isuzu no longer manufactures the D-Max due to the same reason. Instead, Isuzu will import the D-max trucks from Thailand. Only Thailand and Malaysia manufactures Isuzu D-Max in ASEAN. Most foreign investors like Daikin and AkzoNobel (maker of Dulux Paints) can’t even build a factory here in the Philippines. Yan tuloy. Most of our exports are raw materials like semiconductors and car wiring harnesses. While Luzon mostly export raw, intermediate goods like car wiring harnesses transmissions and semiconductors; MIndanao is lucky because their usual finished goods they export is seafoods and fruits (mostly pineapples and bananas), as well as its fruit by-products. Some people, especially the anti-Marcos critics and Bataan residents, refuse to revive the BNPP mainly because of (1) the Chernobyl disaster (even the reactors of Chernobyl are different from BNPP) and (2) the fault line below BNPP. Mr. Carlo Arcilla concluded that there’s no fault line under BNPP. Here’s the video (watch carefully): So in conclusion, the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant needs to reopen. The import-oriented Philippines is suffering from economic losses, especially the shutdown of PH factories of multinational brands (i.e. Honda Cars Sta. Rosa plant). Ordinary Filipinos are suffering from black-outs and high-costs as we are already suffocated by massive, capitalistic oligarchs. Cory, Lopezes; I’m looking at you. You’ve gone too far. Congratulations dilawans and oligarchs. You’re crab mentality and stupidity ruined my beloved motherland, even during the Duterte era.