Reports: Waste Management Plan Hampered, Shehayyeb Renews Contacts
Attempts to put a spoke in the wheels of the waste management plan seem to carry on, which pressed Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayyeb, the plan’s sponsor, to hold a series of contacts in order to put it on the track of implementation.
“Although the plan was able to garner political, technical and financial cover, but that did not stop some parties from hampering it,” ministerial sources told An Nahar daily on Saturday.
The cabinet on Wednesday approved a waste management plan proposed by Shehayyeb during an emergency marathon session that was boycotted by Foreign Minister Jebran Bassil of the Free Patriotic Movement and State Minister for Parliament Affairs Mohammed Fneish of Hizbullah.
The plan involves the reopening of the controversial Naameh landfill for a period of seven days, after it was closed in July drowning the country in garbage.
The sources noted on condition of anonymity that “the parties hampering the plan are the same ones hampering the election of a president and paralyzing the government’s work,” in reference to the Free Patriotic Movement and Hizbullah.
“Those obstructing the plan are linking its facilitation to the issue of upgrading military officials,” the sources added.
Source: Naharnet
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