SRPI “no show” at
City Coucil dialogue
The city council wanted
to find out from SRPI officials their failure to start construction of the
multibillion peso 100 MW coal powered plant at San Ramon or inside the Ecozone.
City councilor Cesar
Jawo Jimenez said the councilors invited the president of SRPI Tirzo Santillan
for the dialogue.
The SRPi and the
Zamboanga City Electric Cooperative have already signed a Power Sharing
Agreement (PSA) a main requirement needed by SRPI to start the project.
SRPI said it failed to
start work on the project last year because of the delay in the approval of the
PSA by the Energy Regulatory Board or ERB..
However, although the
PSA was already approved, there is no move of any actual construction at the
site.
Jinemez said an official
of SRPI should have attended the dialogue because the councilors have a number
of questions regarding the Project, more particularly about the delay in the
undertaking of the Project.
He said he suspect that
the SRPI is just arguing away their delay in undertaking the Project.
Jiménez is also against
a statement of SPRI officials that in the event the corporation fails to
construct the Project on time, they can avail of other alternative sources of
electricity to provide the city.
He said that in this
case, power consumers in the city will end up paying more for the electricity
they need, when the main reason for the PSA between Zamcelco and SRPI is to
provide cheaper electricity to the city.
On the other hand,
Councilor Charlie Mariano that the failure of SRPI to send an official to the
dialogue is not a “snub” at the city council.
Mariano was the one who
proposed for the holding of a dialogue with SRPI, and he sad the other day,
that another day can be set aside for the dialogue.
In which case he said
that other than SRPI , officials from Zamcelco and the Zamboanga Ecozone should
also be invited to the public hearing.
The dialogue has been
reset to November 4, of next month. (ZNS) (102414)
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