The Davao City executive department will review waste–to-energy (WTE) proposals earlier submitted by foreign companies for the city’s P300-million sanitary landfill.
Lawyer Joseph Felizarta, head of the City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO), said two of these WTE proponents are the Sinova Holdings Ltd., a Singaporean company, and Integral Global Green, Inc. based in Canada.
Felizarta made the statement following the pulling out of Herhof, a company based in Germany from its WTE proposal for Davao City due to some disagreements with its local counterpart.
Felizarta, however, did not elaborate further on the two other WTE proposals clarifying that the existing sanitary landfill is still capable of holding wastes eight to 10 years from now.
He also said the WTE project is still preferable and probably the best option because aside from addressing the waste disposal problem of the city, it will generate clean energy, and is environment friendly.
Mayor Sara D. Carpio earlier welcomed Herhof’s decision to withdraw because there are still other potential companies that can be tapped to carry out a WTE project for the city.
Herhof’s WTE project proposal was earlier estimated to cost P1 billion at no cost on the part of the city government.
It was learned that City Council Environment Chairperson Marissa Abella, had earlier revealed that the US-based firm representative, a certain Mike Jimenez and his local partner, William Lima, disagreed on some matters that resulted to the pullout.
Abella rendered her report to the mayor on her visit to Herhof’s plants in Germany as well as Jimenez and Lima’s disagreements.
Among the by-products that will be produced through the WTE project are liquefied gas, construction bricks, plastic pellets and compost fertilizer. [PNA]
