WAITING GAME WTE project still pending with NEDA board

By MAYA M. PADILLO

Davao City’s proposed waste-to-energy (WTE) project is still pending with the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board.

“Naa na karon sa NEDA board. We are waiting for that and how many months na naa pa sa NEDA board para sa approval ana ug kung ma aprubahan na siya DENR will help us fund the project. We are hoping na mugawas ang ilang decision,” said Councilor Temujin “Tek” B. Ocampo, chair of the city council’s environment committee, over

Davao City Disaster Radio (DCDR) on Thursday.

Ocampo said the project is already in its implementation stage.

“Ang WTE is on implementing stage na siya. Kaning WTE is a technology gikan sa government of Japan and ang purpose niini is mutabang sa pag manage sa atoang basura or solid waste management kung asa instead of crudo o fossil fuel ang atong itubil sa power generator basura ang atong ibutang. Ug mu-generate ni sya ug 10 to 11 megawatts of power,” he said.

The city government of Davao has previously purchased a 10-hectare property in Barangay Biao Eskwela, Tugbok District.

Based on the original plan, the WTE can process up to 12 megawatts of energy and hold up to 600 metric tons of garbage.

Earlier, several local organizations wrote an

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open letter to the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) expressing their concerns over the agency’s integrity and lack of accountability concerning waste management in Davao City.

In the letter shared to Edge Davao, environmentalists and youth groups expressed deeply concerned about the integrity of the statements recently released by JICA regarding the Waste-to-Energy (WTE) project and for its lack of accountability on