Puerto Plata Deputy Ginette Bournigal says she has information that Carnival Cruise, the operator of the Amber Cove cruise ship port in Puerto Plata, is carrying out their own environmental impact study for the garbage landfill proposed by Mayor Walter Musa.
To defend his chosen land site, Musa presented a study carried out by Dominicana Limpia of Domingo Contreras, the same organization that proposes to carry out the works for the landfill.
The landfill is located in an urban area, not far from the entrance to the Amber Cove terminal. Bournigal called for a solution to the problem to be found. “They have to understand they have to meet with all the sectors, they are not the owners of Puerto Plata,” she said. She lamented the mayor did not exercise transparency in the purchase of the proposed land site for the landfill.
For years, the mayor has impeded the relocation of the landfill. The present landfill has been technically closed, but the site chosen by the mayor for the new landfill is nearby.
She called for Musa to listen to all the sectors. “The future of Puerto Plata cannot be at stake for nothing or no one,” she said. “We are in a difficult moment, putting at risk private investments and those made by the state for the lack of a decision, for stubbornness and arrogance,” he said.
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Z101
16 May 2019