Chinese company eyes Sector I-17 in Islamabad to set up plant

A team of the Anhui Shengyun Environment Protection Group has been visiting sites to build a garbage-fuelled plant


Our Correspondent September 14, 2017
A team of the Anhui Shengyun Environment Protection Group has been visiting sites to build a garbage-fuelled plant. PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: It seems that a panacea to the capital’s solid waste and power problems has walked up and knocked on the doors of the city’s administrators.

A Chinese company has expressed interest in setting up a garbage-fuelled plant in Sector I-17.

A high-level delegation from the Anhui Shengyun Environment Protection Group - which develops, designs, manufactures, sells and installs conveyor machinery and eco-friendly products in China including exhaust-gas purification equipment for household and medical waste incineration for power generation -  has been holding talks with the city’s authorities and visiting potential sites to build a plant.

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The delegation led by Bao Zhiping, the executive vice president of the company, had arrived in the capital earlier this week. This is the second visit of the group, having travelled to Islamabad before Eidul Azha when it held meetings with the city’s managers including Mayor and Capital Development Authority (CDA) Chairman Sheikh Anser Aziz and other officials of the Islamabad Metropolitan Corporation (IMC) and CDA to discuss modalities and feasibility of the project.

This time, the company’s delegation also included technical experts.

Curiously, this is not the first Chinese company CDA and IMC have talked to solve the power and waste problem of Islamabad.

Over the past 18 months, the CDA and IMC have spoken with similar delegations from other Chinese companies. The Chengdu Xingrong Group visited the capital in March this year and met with top city officials had given a presentation on building a state-of-the-art clean energy power plant by burning solid waste.

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CDA hosted the delegation for three days and the civic body continued back-to-back deliberations and consultations with the visiting delegation regarding the construction of the power plant.

According to a CDA official, the proposed power plant would be a gift from the Chinese government and would have a capacity to treat 1,500 tonnes of garbage per day while generating 20 Megawatts of power.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 14th, 2017.

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