SP ratifies agreement for W2E project
DAGUPAN City’s Sangguniang Panlungsod – by a vote of nine affirmative and one abstention – has ratified the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA) entered into last August 10 by Mayor Belen T. Fernandez and Julia C. Boughton, president of the Sure Global W2W1 PTE, Ltd) (SGW), the company that will soon establish the first Waste to Energy (W2E) facility in Dagupan and Region 1.
The resolution proposed jointly by Councilors Jeslito Seen and Alvin Coquia was passed during the council’s regular session on Aug. 14.
Seen told The PUNCH, the SGW2W1, whose main office is located in Singapore, is the company that is implementing the corporate social responsibility of Procter and Gamble Company worldwide.
The JVA awarded the contract to SGW2W1 to build the facility costing USD 11 million dollars (P551 million) at no cost at all to the city government.
The JVA also defines the respective responsibilities, interests, and liabilities of the city and SGW2W1 for the development and operation of the Waste to Worth Facility.
The facility will be set up on a parcel of land in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City earlier segregated and reserved for “Waste Management Facility purposes of the City Government of Dagupan” by virtue of Proclamation No. 1302 dated Oct. 23,2016 of then President Benigno Aquino Jr.
Seen said prior to the signing of the JVA, the city council enacted Ordinance No. 2062-1016 otherwise known as “The Waste Management Facility Joint Venture Ordinance of the City of Dagupan” paving the way for the signing of JVA for the establishment of the facility.
The councilors who voted for the resolution were Councilors Seen, Alvin Coquia, Maybelyn Fernandez, Jose Netu Tamayo, Dennis Canto, Marvin Fabia, Lino Fernandez, Nicanor Aquino and Guillermo Vallejos.
The lone abstention was registered by Councilor Redford Erfe-Mejia.
Once fully operational, the facility can process Dagupan’s daily 30 tons of solid wastes from homes and establishments into 6,000 kilograms of methane gas and 4,000 liters of diesel fuel. (Leonardo Micua)
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