According to Bouvier, the document, published on the ministry’s website on December 9, “to date has had no objections, neither from academia nor from political authors.”
The incoming and outgoing secretaries and assistant secretaries of the Presidency also participated in the event. The objective of the meeting was to provide technical information to the next government and discuss possible alternatives to the project, which seeks to build a new water treatment plant in San José.
The minister pointed out that the elected government expressed reservations about the environmental clearance and the project in general, although he assured that “objections from an environmental point of view were not raised to me today.” Instead, he indicated that “what was raised today were some possible alternatives.”
Regarding the options discussed, Bouvier explained that they are related to “what the polder is and so on,” without providing further details. “The government is willing to work on them, to be receptive to what the elected government thinks about those alternatives,” he added.
