T’puram: The suggestion to set up waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in Thiruvananthapuram is quite much alive and soil appears to be the sole concern.
Chief Union Pinarayi Vijayan within his answer to a query on progress of important projects from the meeting dated June 7 stated waste-to-energy plants were suggested in eight clusters and at Thiruvananthapuram, and measures have been taken to recognize the storyline.
The town company had previously passed the schedule to locate property for establishing WTE plant in town with no discussion.
But while the rest of the decisions were contained in the seconds, the dilemma of the power plant had been placed on hold because officials believed that it had an elaborate inspection.
The state administration’s constant insistence about WTE plant, combined with mounting pressure in PCB, had driven business to contemplate centralized plant despite the continuing decentralized waste management effort.
By June, the interim report submitted to federal green tribunal from Justice A V Ramakrishna Pillai, chairman, state-level tracking committee on waste control, flagged concerns regarding WTE job at Brahmapuram.
From the report delivered to NGT concerning the advancement in implementation of environmental legislation in Kerala, ” the chairman stated that statement of WTE in Brahmapuram made a situation where all stakeholders began believing there is not any need of waste segregation as each of the materials could be incinerated.
Massive protests forced the authorities to abort the thought of setting a WTE plant in Peringamala.
The authorities then turned into the civic body to recognize a scheme for concentrated plant after that it had been also included as an item in the schedule for business council assembly.
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