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==[[Sarangani News]]==
==[[Sarangani News]]==
'''MOA for $100-M waste-to-energy plant inked'''
'''Glan stages 12th Lubi-Lubi Festival'''
*Source: MOA for $100-M waste-to-energy plant inked
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/?m=7&r=r12&id=58694
*Wednesday, October 05, 2011
*Tuesday, October 11, 2011
:by PIA Press Release
:by PIA Press Release




GLAN, Sarangani, Oct 5 (PIA) — The local government here has signed a memorandum of agreement with a big German ecological firm, which will put up a $100-million ultra-modern solid waste management and disposal plant at this burgeoning resort town in the south under the build-operate-transfer (BOT) scheme.
GLAN, Sarangani, Oct 11 (PIA)--The twelfth staging of the Lubi-Lubi sa Glan Festival last October 8, was a rousing success, with
Herhof-German has agreed to construct and develop waste management disposal plant facilities using a highly reliable and safe technology from Germany called “Stabilat-R Method” of converting waste to energy.
previous Lubi-Lubi combined.
The agreement also provides that Herhof will own, operate and maintain all Mechanical Biological Treatment (MBT) Stabilat-R plant facilities that the company will develop here for municipal solid waste processing, waste-water treatment, sewage sludge, leachate treatment for landfills, methane/biogas extraction, hospital waste plant, thermal treatment of secondary fuels, gasification processes, anaerobic treatment and possible power-generation technologies or the so-called “EVA Power Plant.”
Throughout the week-long festivities, which hit the ground running on October 1, the festival area, particularly the party zone, was thronged with revelers out for a good time, and the kiosk operators and vendors had never it so good, making a killing from sales on foods, drinks and other fun items.
To ensure the successful operation of all its future facilities as well as help generate local employment here, the company will conduct employee training programs on maintenance, safety and over-all plant management and will only hire bona fide residents as workers and plant operators provided they are qualified in accordance with the Labor Code the Philippines.
“The festival mood was unprecedented. People from all walks of life, from far and wide, turned up in almost all events we had put on for this year’s celebration. I promise you we will go one better next Lubi-Lubi,” said Mayor Victor James “Tata” Yap, Sr.
The local government, on the other hand, will allow Herhof untrammeled use of its present landfill at Barangay Mudan for 25 years, renewable for another 25 years, as construction site of Phase 1 of the project at no cost to the company.
The festivities opened at 7 p.m., October 1, with a great basketball game at the Atty. Enrique D. Yap, Sr. Cultural Center, followed by a pop & rock concert at Plaza Rizal by the DXMD band.
If the local government can bring in 1,000 tons of garbage daily at the six-hectare municipal dumpsite within two years from the signing of the agreement, an additional area of at least nine hectares will be provided to the company for its power plant facility under the same terms and conditions.
Day 2 and 3 saw two other great basketball matches and a Moro song and dance contest, which the town’s multi-ethnic public enjoyed to the
“This agreement could serve as a catalyst that will catapult Glan as the next boom town in Mindanao. Imagine the jobs, revenue and ancillary enterprises that a $100-million investment can generate,” said Mayor Victor James B. Yap, Sr., who signed the agreement on behalf of the local government.
hilt.
When already in place, the project will also serve as a major revenue-earner in that other towns, cities or provinces can make use of the facilities for their own garbage disposal after paying the dumping charges or “tipping fees”, with the town and the company sharing the income equally.
Early morning of Day 4 was greeted with a fun run from the Municipal Ground to the Marker, where a Thanksgiving Mass was held, then back to the municipal gym at 7 p.m. for the Global Glanians Social Night, where they danced the night away. Another concert, featuring the town’s very own Glanians Band and sponsored by SMB/Coca-Cola, wrapped up Day 4.
With the minimum daily requirement of 1,000 tons of garbage in the bag because of the additional load from outside sources, the company will start Phase II of the project--the power plant facility, which will use treated and recycled garbage as fuel.
October 5 was literally a red-letter day for the SK Federation of Board Member James P. Yap, which conducted a blood-letting at Glan Training Center between 8 a.m. and 12 noon. At 1 to 6 p.m., it was the turn of the senior citizens and the womenfolk for their own show and celebration.
The agreement also provides that when the company recoups its investment after 25 years of operation, it shall turn over its facilities to the local government under the BOT scheme.
Serving as finale for the day’s events was the hilarious DOBLE KARA & Hip-Hop Dance Contest conducted jointly by the SK Federation and Bombo Radyo at the Atty. Enrique D. Yap, Sr. Cultural
Signing for Herhof were William J. Lima, president of TIG Green Technology Mindanao; and Michael C. Jimenez, president of Zehira USA, LLC. (GLAN Information and News Service/PIA General Santos City)
Center.
Day 6 and 7 came and went with amateur boxing, basketball and concert,on the one hand, and a safari photo contest, coco fun game, the much-awaited Mutya ng Glan and another concert, featuring the highly popular Alamid band, on the other.
On Day 8, Foundation Day, it was showtime, kicking off with a civic military parade at 7:30 a.m., followed by the spectacular Lubi-Lubi
street dancing, the basketball final, a disco concert and a dazzling fireworks display that had the crowd "star-gazing" until the wee hours
of the morning.
“The festival was beautiful while it lasted. We look forward to the next Lubi-Lubihan sa Glan,” said a visitor, who came all the way from
North Cotabato.
This only goes to show that the Lubi-Lubi sa Glan is here to stay.(Glan Information and News service/PIA General Santos City)


==Photo Gallery of Sarangani, Philippines==
==Photo Gallery of Sarangani, Philippines==
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