April 22, 2016 By Judy Ann N. Dinopol
CEBU CITY — A power firm that has
proposed to build a coal-fired power plant in Barangay Sawang Calero here, has
assured local residents that it will make sure that their welfare and health,
as well as the environment, will be protected while the construction was under
way.
Ludo Power Corporation (LPC) said it
will create a monitoring team that will constantly monitor the construction of
the plant.
LPC said it will work with the
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and the Department of
Health (DOH) in monitoring the construction of the power plant for possible
health and environment issues.
The coal-fired thermal power plant
is a project of Ludo Power Corporation (LPC), in response to the problem of
power supply in Cebu City.
Residents of Barangay Sawang Calero,
where the power plant will be built, and other residents from neighboring
barangays in Cebu City had earlier met with officials from Ludo Power
Corporation to protest the project.
Environment and health concerns were
raised by the residents during the dialogue.
In that dialogue, LPC assured that
the power plant will not harm the environment and that the welfare of the
people will be its top priority.
In a public hearing on April 20,
Nelson Yuvallos, a representative of Ludo Power Corporation, requested the Cebu
City Council to conduct a referendum or a signed agreement from the residents,
to prove wrong the accusations that they were paying the residents just for
them not to oppose the project.
No comments:
Post a Comment