The President of the Technical Committee of the Thermoelectric Trust Catalina PointCelso Marranzini, disqualified this Thursday the findings made by a study carried out by the National Council for the Defense of Climate Change which indicates that the pollution of the plant affects several countries and causes serious damage to the Dominican population.
Marranzini said that the thermoelectric plant is periodically evaluated by a company called RINA and that these inspections are carried out with European standards, while emphasizing that the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) made a publication stating that the first has no scientific basis.
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“They did not enter…if they entered Punta Catalina they entered at night…but we never saw it,” said Marranzini during an interview on the program El Despertador, which is broadcast on Color Vision, channel 9.
He explained that the mountains of ashes that were seen before in the plant “do not exist”, emphasizing that the management that is now given to these wastes is compacted in the form of a pyramid and they are planted with grass so “there is no contamination there”, in addition of, that it is planned to sell those ashes to the cement companies in the future.
Marranzini assured that although the Government still cannot receive the plants, the thermoelectric plant remains in operation, contributing a significant amount of energy to the national system.
