Arturo Sánchez Jiménez and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada Newspaper
Saturday, October 19, 2024, p. 7
The comprehensive sanitation project for the Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico and the Circular Economy Center that your government plans to build in Tula, Hidalgo, will be presented when the corresponding studies are completed, which are underway and are estimated to be concluded in the first quarter of 2025, President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo announced yesterday.
When asked about this in her daily press conference at the National Palace, the head of the Executive recalled that the Circular Economy Center is planned to be built on a 700-hectare property where a refinery was going to be built during Felipe Calderón’s government.
He announced that for this an agreement will be made with the UNAM Engineering Institute and that it will include the construction of a recycling center for organic waste, another for inorganic waste, one more for construction waste and another for sludge from the plant. of water treatment.
He added that Tula It is a city that for many years has received a lot of pollution from the Tula River, the surrounding municipalities, the refinery and the electricity generation plant; So, the objective is to do a comprehensive sanitation
.
He reported that work is being done to clean the Tula River and other tributaries of the Valley of Mexico, as well as to transform the thermoelectric plant located in the municipality into a combined cycle one, which seeks to reduce polluting emissions.
Likewise, the coker at the Tula refinery will help a lot
to reduce pollution, and recalled that it is a project that former president Andrés Manuel López Obrador left very advanced
.
He added that the center to be built in Tula is part of a comprehensive sanitation plan for the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico, which includes the governments of the country’s capital, the state of Mexico and Hidalgo, and in the that measures will be taken for the entire region.
