Dagupan set to negotiate with others for waste to energy facility
A NEW international company has expressed its intent to help Dagupan solve its worsening perennial problem on solid wastes.
Mayor Belen Fernandez revealed that representatives of the company, which she did not identify yet, are expected in Dagupan City on February to submit their proposal.
She said companies have expressed interest to be involved in the city government’s project after Sure Global backed out from its earlier commitment to build a 15-million dollar waste to energy facility in Dagupan at no cost to the city after the Lim administration blocked it because it was an initiative of her administration in 2016.
“We lost our credibility to Sure Global, that is why it is no longer interested in pursuing the waste to energy project.” Fernandez told newsmen.
She said she negotiated the waste to energy facility with the United States government initially soon after raising the mounting environmental problem of Dagupan during the Asia-Pacific Cooperation Forum in Cebu.
Fernandez revealed the waste problem in Dagupan continued to worsen after the waste to energy facility project was lost when the seven majority councilors, who were part of the previous city administration, refused to pass a supplemental budget she proposed last year seeking to appropriate funds for the purchase of two new garbage trucks, a back hoe, a loader and four “garong-type tricycles that will collect garbage from the barangays.
Consequently, she said with only one old garbage truck, the city can only bring 18 tons of its 60 tons of garbage collected daily from various barangays of Dagupan to the solid waste management facility in Capas, Tarlac. (Leonardo Micua)
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