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Lorenzo Gadon

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Lorenzo Gadon

“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.”

Vera Files rated this: False

Vera Files says: 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…