Coal plants stoke community fears
After the three-day “Welgang Bayan” (People’s Strike) against the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in June 1985 and the mothballing of the 620-megawatt facility a year later by President Corazon Aquino in the wake of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Russia, Julito Velasco thought his fight to defend the environment and the…