“President Corazon Aquino shutdown the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant, a project of her predecessor Ferdinand Marcos Sr., because she "didn't want Filipinos to remember the Marcos family.”
What Vera Files found
While it is true that Aquino decommissioned the multi-billion-peso BNPP, the “reason” that Gadon cited has nothing to do with the mothballed power plant. In 1986, Aquino’s Executive Order 55 declared that the Philippine government decided not to operate the BNPP “for reasons of safety and economy.”
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Lorenzo Gadon made this claim around 2 October 2020. Vera Files (Philippines) looked into it and published its finding on 19 October 2020, 17 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Where the claim appeared
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This check was done by Vera Files, not by DoesItStand. We list it so you can find it. Their full evidence and reasoning are in their article.