Orion eyes $500-M waste-to-energy plant
ORION, Bataan — The setting up of a $500-million ( 22.4 billion) waste-to-energy plant in this town will push through as planned, pending the completion of all the required documents for its construction, local authorities assured yesterday.
Mayor Tonypep Raymundo revealed yesterday that the Korean company involved in this public-private partnership (PPP) project has already put up its local office here to speed up the completion of all the paperwork for the construction of the power plant.
Raymundo said a provincial government- owned lot in Barangay Daang Bago, here has been offered to be the proposed site of the foreign company since it is accessible and an ideal site of the proposed project, the biggest so far once made operational.
“In fact, the company officials have been securing the required documents and permits for its construction and had already transferred their local office here from Cebu,” Raymundo said.
Earlier, Governor Abet S. Garcia and Mayors Raymundo, Jesse Concepcion of Mariveles, and Ver Roque of Limay, went to Seoul, South Korea to talk to the company officials and see for themselves the actual operation of an existing high-tech power plant company in that highly urbanized city there.
“I think it is just a matter of time for the company to set up their company here and we are also very supportive for them to hasten the construction,” said Raymundo.
Gov. Garcia said the provincial government is eyeing this South Korean technology to solve the waste problem by converting the province’s garbage into energy.
Earlier, Victor Lee, vice president of Philippine Recycle Green Energy, told newsmen the proposed waste to energy plant would derive its fuel from solid waste collected from households, commercial establishments, and industrial firms in the 11 towns including four industrial zones, and this city.
This kind of technology has been widely adopted in South Korea and Japan and Gov. Garcia believes it is suitable for Bataan, where various multinational companies are operating.