The Diesel Electric Power Plant of the municipality of Moa, in Holguín, has been surrounded by fire since this Sunday. This is a very dangerous fire due to the facility’s capacity to burn and also threatens one of the main export products for the State, nickel from the companies Ernesto Che Guevara and Pedro Soto Alba, the latter managed by the Canadian Sherrit.
The first to raise the alarm, hours after the fire started, was the journalist from Canal Moa TV Yulieska Hernández, who reported on her Facebook profile the visible flames that put “a large part of the perimeter of the facility at risk of the fire” and there were “outbreaks on the nearby mountain of the fuel oil group”.
“The rescue and rescue forces of the nickel industry and the Ministry of the Interior assess the area to deal with the flames as precisely as possible”
Hernández indicated that the causes of the fire were still unknown, but there was speculation that a lit cigarette butt had started the fire due to “irresponsible actions of bathers and fishermen who retraced the area, looking for Playa La Vaca.”
According to the reporter, “the rescue and rescue forces of the nickel industry and the Ministry of the Interior are evaluating the area to deal with the flames in the most precise way possible.”
The Moa Power Plant was inaugurated in 2015 and its ten engines contributed 184 megawatts to the National Energy System, although its exact capacity is currently unknown, after the authorities announced in January that, as part of the repairs and maintenance to recover the SEN for the summer, the plant was going to “revitalize”.
Between February and March of this year, Holguín saw more than 5,000 hectares of forest destroyed in the areas of Pinares de Mayarí after a fire that advanced to the neighboring province of Santiago de Cuba.
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