By | Jan. 17, 2014 at 12:01am
THE Quezon City government will visit Taiwan to see its a waste-to-energy plant, Dr. Victor Endriga, senior consultant for special projects said.
Mayor Herbert Bautista has ordered a study on phasing out the Payatas landfill to put up a P10-billion green power facility under a public-private partnership with business tycoon Manny V. Pangilinan.
City officials, during last Wednesday’s management committee meeting, had agreed to invite the council’s majority floor leader Jesus Manuel Suntay and minority floor leader Franz Pumaren, Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Ramon Paje, Laguna Lake Development Authority Chairman Nereus Acosta, ABS-CBN Foundation managing director Gina Lopez and environmentalists to visit Taipei’s waste-to-energy plants as part of a three-year study of the MVP group to put up a waste recycling facility in Lupang Pangako in Payatas, Endriga said.
“I and Mayor Herbert Bautista will join the delegation,” he told Manila Standard.
“The city would like to show how to convert waste into clean energy, and how safe the facility is to the environment and the people.”
Pangilinan’s Metro Pacific Investments Corp. would take on the cost of the airfare and other accommodations in Taipei, he said.
“Taiwan is the world’s capital of waste-to-energy facilities,” Endriga said.
In June 2013, Pangilinan offered Bautista to develop a 15-hectare portion of Payatas and build such facility in three years’ time.
The facility would also house a shopping mall and other commercial establishments, Endriga said.
The city generates 1.2 tons of garbage a day that could generate 45 megawatts of power and could light up 1,000 houses. source
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