Cost analysis for 3 sites for W2W project sought
IN the absence of a definite position in the pending Waste to Worth (W2W) technology, Dagupan City, Councilor Jose Netu Tamayo reiterated his suggestion that three sites be considered by Sure Global Philippines Inc. for the project.
The first is the two-hectare land segregated from the 72-hectare area covered by Proclamation 93 in Barangay Bonuan Binloc; second, the 30-hectare land in Barangay Awai in San Jacinto which the city government bought in 2004 and planned to become Dagupan’s sanitary landfill; and third, the present Dagupan dumpsite in Bonuan Boquig.
Tamayo asked the executive department during the marathon hearing of the 2020 annual budget to submit to the Sangguniang Panlungsod a “cost-benefit analysis” of each of the recommended sites for the W2W project being offered by Sure Global at no cost to the city.
He asked for the analysis after the Waste Management Division led by its technical consultant Teddy Villamil remarked that the two-hectare segregated land in Bonuan Binloc faces negative social acceptability because it is near La Playa Subdivision and the Regional Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Center.
Villamil had earlier recommended the W2W project be located in Awai, San Jacinto where the city government bought a 30-hectare land in 2004 for P16 million, a suggestion adopted by Tamayo.
Both, however, were silent on the fact that the suggested site in San Jacinto is already owned by the tenants of the farmland after the Department of Agrarian Reform Arbitration Board, decided in their favor in the litigation case filed by the tenants in contesting ownership of the land claimed by the city government.
Tamayo suggested the W2W project be located in the present garbage dumpsite in Bonuan Boquig so the garbage that accumulated over 30 years can already be removed.
Since Zarate was not around, Tamayo instructed the representative of the budget office to convey his request to the City Administrator for cost-benefit analysis.
Meanwhile, Mayor Brian Lim has not given any indication that he will stand by the agreement entered into by the Sure Global with the previous city government under Mayor Belen Fernandez. (Leonardo Micua)
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