13/07/2026
𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐧𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐮𝐬-𝐏𝐮𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐢 𝐇𝐲𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐱
Youth for Climate Justice (Y4CJ) vehemently condemns the Marcos administration’s renewed push to privatize the Agus-Pulangi Hydropower Complex (APHC), a brazen attack on the Filipino people’s right to affordable electricity, public ownership, and genuine development.
The planned sale of Mindanao’s largest hydropower complex is nothing less than the surrender of a strategic public asset to power oligarchs and corporate interests that have long profited from the privatization of essential services. Decades after the passage of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA), the Filipino people continue to suffer from exorbitant electricity rates, unreliable service, and an energy system designed to enrich corporations while burdening ordinary consumers.
The youth refuse to accept the lie that privatization is the solution. Privatization has never guaranteed affordable electricity, energy security, nor a just energy transition. Instead, it has entrenched corporate control over the country’s energy resources while leaving consumers to shoulder soaring power costs.
The Agus-Pulangi Hydropower Complex is a public resource built through the labor and wealth of the Filipino people. It must remain under public ownership and democratic control, serving the interests of the people—not the profits of private corporations.
As the climate crisis intensifies, the government should be strengthening publicly owned renewable energy systems and ensuring that communities have a decisive voice in energy governance. Instead, it continues to auction off critical infrastructure under the guise of “efficiency” and “investment,” sacrificing the public interest to corporate greed.
Y4CJ stands firmly with the communities of Mindanao, environmental defenders, people’s organizations, and all sectors resisting the privatization of Agus-Pulangi. We call on the Filipino youth to organize, mobilize, and raise our collective voice against policies that commodify our natural resources and undermine our energy sovereignty.
The fight for climate justice is inseparable from the struggle against corporate greed, neoliberal privatization, and the continued plunder of our common resources.
Hands off Agus-Pulangi!
Defend public ownership!
Advance energy democracy and !
