Few infrastructure projects in Philippine history have spawned so much political heat, corporate intrigue, media warfare, and legal bloodletting as the Caliraya-Botocan-Kalayaan hydroelectric (CBK) complex. Today, the headlines belong to the Aboitiz Group after its Thunder Consortium stunned the market with a P36.27-billion winning bid for the CBK complex, defeating the Lopez-led First Gen consortium and securing control of one of the country’s …