{"id":108217,"date":"2018-01-10T07:55:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=108217"},"modified":"2018-01-10T07:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T11:55:47","slug":"new-hydroelectric-plant-to-be-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/01\/10\/new-hydroelectric-plant-to-be-built\/","title":{"rendered":"New hydroelectric plant to be built"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_108224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108224\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-108224\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Adriano-Sanchez-Roa-La-Informacion-Digital-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-108224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adriano Sanchez Roa \/ La Informaci\u00f3n Digital<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Senator Adriano S\u00e1nchez Roa (PLD-El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a) has informed that the funds for feasibility studies and the subsequent construction of the Artibonite hydroelectric plant in Pedro Santana, a border town in El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a province on the border with Haiti, have been included in the 2018 general budget at the initiative of President Danilo Medina.<\/p>\n<p>Senator S\u00e1nchez Roa says that the project will also benefit nearby B\u00e1nica. The area will be transformed when hundreds of thousands of hectares of land get access to irrigation water from the Joca and Tocino rivers.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the senator explained that the Artibonito hydroelectric plant will produce energy for an estimated value of RD$280 million per month and reduce the sediment of the tributaries.<\/p>\n<p>The Artibonito is the longest river in Haiti and the island of Hispaniola. It rises in the Cordillera Central in the Dominican Republic at an altitude of 1,000 meters west of of Burende (province of La Vega) and travels 320 km, before flowing into the Gulf of Gon\u00e2ve at the village of Grande-Saline in Haiti.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.haitilibre.com\/en\/news-23218-haiti-flash-dominicans-want-to-build-a-dam-on-the-river-artibonite.html\" target=\"_blank\">Haiti Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>10 January 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Adriano S\u00e1nchez Roa (PLD-El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a) has informed that the funds for feasibility studies and the subsequent construction of the Artibonite hydroelectric plant in Pedro Santana, a border town in El\u00edas Pi\u00f1a province on the border with Haiti, have been included in the 2018 general budget at the initiative of President Danilo Medina. Senator S\u00e1nchez &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/01\/10\/new-hydroelectric-plant-to-be-built\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}