Report: Finishing Touches to Shehayyeb's Waste Plan to Be Placed Wednesday
Joint efforts by Hizbullah and the AMAL movement have led to an agreement over two sites for possible landfills to be used according to Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb's waste disposal plan, reported al-Joumhouria newspaper on Wednesday.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam's sources told the daily that technical, geological, and environment experts are expected to visit the two sites later on Wednesday to determine their illegibility.
Only one of the sites will be used for a Bekaa landfill, while the other one will be established in Srar in Akkar, explained the daily.
Shehayyeb is keen to keep these Bekaa locations secret until the right moment, added al-Joumhouria given the objections of locals of various regions to allow their land to be used for garbage disposal.
A meeting was held on Tuesday between Salam, Shehayyeb, Interior Minister Nouhad al-Mashnouq and concerned officials to follow up on the waste disposal crisis and efforts to resolve it.
The officials and experts will hold a “final meeting” on Thursday to take a stand on the issue.
“A cabinet session will be called to session based on their findings and to introduce any amendments to Shehayyeb's proposal,” said al-Joumhouria.
Shehayyeb had announced on Tuesday that a landfill will be established in al-Bekaa after the necessary geological studies had been made.
He stressed that it will be a sanitary landfill that will hold the waste of nearby areas, as well as those of Beirut and its suburbs.
Lebanon was plunged in a waste disposal crisis following the July 17 closure of the Naameh landfill, which resulted in garbage piling up on the streets.
Numerous proposals had been made by officials to dump the trash in various landfills throughout Lebanon, but they were met with rejection by local residents of those areas.
14 October 2015, 08:24
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I am the_roar: I am a regular poster on naharnet. I have 59 fake accounts and I live on this forum 24/7. I make fake accounts and insult people when I have no argument or debate. I am a Shia who pretends not to speak Arabic and claims to live in Australia. I know every street in Lebanon and every MP's name despite my claim that I am 3rd generation Australian and having never been to Lebanon. I tell people I don't post on weekends to give them the impression I have a life. I lie and lie and lie and think people believe me. I love to see my comments in the top rated section so people think I am important.
14 October 2015, 11:19
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what happened to the m14 goons who were swearing that Hezbollah would reject the plan?
14 October 2015, 11:55
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@mowaten E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T. Still laughing since the day you declared with a straight face you were a shiaa atheist and also a member of hezbollah with only one account. I think i will also continue to laugh at your statement " Cue now CFTC and his 20 retarded accounts ". Thank you Thank you
14 October 2015, 14:08
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The good thing about epidemics and pandemics is this, that it sees no religion, no social classes, no political classes, nothing, when they hit, they'll hit everyone, one of them is called Cholera. Now that Winter has kicked-in, the trash will seep into the underground water reserves, the rest you all should know. When the Lebanese start dying from them, no one will be accorded martyr's status, it will just be Lebanese citizens dying because of their total stupidity for wanting to keep following the world's sickest and greediest politicians ever seen on earth. The rich will have the most pompous of funerals and coffins, the poor will just be ditched into a cheap wooden casket and off they go. For all I know, the fault lies with the people, they had their chance, it got screwed up as usual by whom else but the politicians.
14 October 2015, 19:19
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Derbas with STD, you need a computer to record just how many aliases you used so far. Then do rest that thumb will you, you're boring yourself to death.
