By Mortz C. Ortigoza
My early disappointment with the Waste to Work Project of the Sure Global of the Philippines, Inc. since its introduction in Dagupan City by its Chief Executive Officer Julia Courts Boughton to then mayor Belen T. Fernandez in 2014, I thought it was all lip service.
In the last one year of her administration, I did not hear from either Fernandez or Boughton how the project fared.
I was passionate writing and broadcasting glowing encomium and peroration about its advantages like conversion of plastic wastes into diesel and food wastes into compressed gas to solve our perennial gargantuan garbage problem.
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| Dagupan City prepares rollout of $15 million waste-to-energy plant first of its kind in Southeast Asia. Photo and Texts Credit: Philippine Star |
In the last year of Mayor Fernandez, every time I mentioned about it I was rebuffed, over cup of coffee by fellow media men, who were pro Lim, that the Michigan, USA based proponent had that hao-shiao or farce project.
They told me the program was only drawing on the board exploited by the May 2019 reelectionist Mayor Fernandez for brownie points to win votes in a tough election she faced with the popular then Vice Mayor Brian Lim.
How could I argue with them since its inception in 2014 through that Memorandum of Agreement and the eventual resolution cum proposed contract passed by the Sangguniang Panglungsod (City Council) and signed on the proverbial dotted lines of the final contract by Fernandez and Boughton, the Fernandez Administration failed to tell all and sundry that it was a long daunting task before Sure Global starts it construction at the 28, 062 square meters land in Barangay Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City.
