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In the Al-Akhbar newspaper, Rajana Hammeh wrote under the headline: “Burial remains in the port: no agreement on alternative lands”: “On 4 August last, the devastation occurred in Beirut in one go after the explosion: the disaster destroyed its port and a large number of its buildings, turning them into separate piles. More than a month after the explosion … Nothing has changed! Buildings piled on themselves, streets and alleys full of garbage and debris, while the State stares at the lives of the people trapped under the ruined structures, without doing what is evident, that it does not go further. The issue of cleaning up the place of the explosion, after the processing of the landfills has become a dispute between those involved in its administration, from the Beirut governorate and its municipal council to the environment ministries and plays. An “existential” disagreement makes it difficult to agree on a specific mechanism to address an issue of this simplicity and importance. It is a dispute that goes beyond the issue of competitions. It is part of “the framework of getting lost in the handling of the file, especially since there is still no final report on the danger posed by these landfills,” according to Amani Maalouf, an environmental engineer and specialist in waste management at the American University.
When the August 4 explosion occurred, teams from the Army Works Regiment removed the debris and removed the debris from the port. A temporary landfill has been developed in the Karantina area to transport landfills, provided another location is identified to classify and categorize among glass, iron, filler, waste, and other materials. However, this was not carried out according to plan due to disagreement over the “projection” piece, some of a technical nature and others of a “political nature”, according to sources from the Beirut governorate.
On the technical side, the Beirut governorate and its municipal council did not obtain approval from the Environment Ministry for any of the land proposals it submitted. Almost a week after the explosion, the governorate sent a letter about land offered by the Maronite order in the Damour area, but it was rejected “because the conditions were not met,” according to the ministry’s response. Subsequently, another book with a piece of land in the Roumieh area belonging to a former mayor was sent, but it was also rejected, and a third piece of land at the Burj Hammoud landfill and a fourth in Bsalim were rejected. The stated reasons for the denial, according to the Ministry of the Environment, are the fear that “these spaces will become random landfills.” But the essence of the disagreement, according to monitoring sources in the ministry, is that the municipality is acting on the basis of “organizing an investment party, on the basis that some of the land proposed without them are doubts, for example that the land offered by monasticism is close to it as an illegal crusher, and there are similar doubts about Rumi lands ». According to the sources, “the fear of the ministry is that the file of the landfill is apt for the benefit of the contractors.” In addition, “the ministry is awaiting the report of the European Union to find out what the landfills contain before moving them to any other place.” This is also what the army leadership expects before allowing the transfer of battering rams. There is also an ongoing debate in the Ministry of the Environment that has not yet been resolved on “whether it is better to order the landfills on site to neutralize hazardous materials before transferring them to another place or classify after agreeing on the alleged location” . Read the full article Press here.
When the August 4 explosion occurred, teams from the Army Works Regiment removed the debris and removed the debris from the port. A temporary landfill has been developed in the Karantina area to transport landfills, provided another location is identified to classify and categorize among glass, iron, filler, waste, and other materials. However, this was not carried out according to plan due to disagreement over the “projection” piece, some of a technical nature and others of a “political nature”, according to sources from the Beirut governorate.
On the technical side, the Beirut governorate and its municipal council did not obtain approval from the Environment Ministry for any of the land proposals it submitted. Almost a week after the explosion, the governorate sent a letter about land offered by the Maronite order in the Damour area, but it was rejected “because the conditions were not met,” according to the ministry’s response. Subsequently, another book with a piece of land in the Roumieh area belonging to a former mayor was sent, but it was also rejected, and a third piece of land at the Burj Hammoud landfill and a fourth in Bsalim were rejected. The stated reasons for the denial, according to the Ministry of the Environment, are the fear that “these spaces will become random landfills.” But the essence of the disagreement, according to monitoring sources in the ministry, is that the municipality is acting on the basis of “organizing an investment party, on the basis that some of the land proposed without them are doubts, for example that the land offered by monasticism is close to it as an illegal crusher, and there are similar doubts about Rumi lands ». According to the sources, “the fear of the ministry is that the file of the landfill is apt for the benefit of the contractors.” In addition, “the ministry is awaiting the report of the European Union to find out what the landfills contain before moving them to any other place.” This is also what the army leadership expects before allowing the transfer of battering rams. There is also an ongoing debate in the Ministry of the Environment that has not yet been resolved on “whether it is better to order the landfills on site to neutralize hazardous materials before transferring them to another place or classify after agreeing on the alleged location” . Read the full article Press here.
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