Mayor Belen speaks at APEC 2015 forum
BALON DAGUPAN NEWS
Mayor Belen Fernandez exchanges pleasantries with Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala during the APEC 2015 forum last September 3 at Radisson Blu Hotel in Cebu City after the mayor addressed the forum about the biggest challenge Dagupan is facing as a growing urban city. (CIO photo by Leziel Aquino)
MAYOR Belen T. Fernandez had the rare privilege of speaking before the APEC 2015 “Building Better Cities” forum where she shared with the international community the biggest challenge being faced by Dagupan as a growing urban city.
The event held in Cebu City from September 3 to 4 was participated in by 28 APEC economic ministers and leaders of growing urban cities in the Asia-Pacific region.
Fernandez said the biggest challenge facing her administration is putting permanent solution to the garbage problem of the city and closing the more than 50-year old dumpsite through the Waste to Worth project of Procter and Gamble and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The 8-million U.S. dollar waste to worth project seeks to convert waste into biogas fuel which in turn can be used by the 5,000 public utility vehicles and motor boats in the city.
“I am doing my best to convince them (APEC ministers) to make Dagupan a recipient of this project which will solve the half a century-old dumpsite problem of the city,” Fernandez said.
“Our people have suffered enough, so I will not allow the next generation to inherit this problem,” the mayor added.
Mayor Fernandez was invited on September 7 to attend a meeting in Malacanang with representatives of the U.S.-based Ocean Conservancy and other environment related agencies of the government to discuss further details about the project.
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