2023-10-20 03:17:00
Talking regarding “the city that never sleeps” refers to large cities with tourist attractions, both daytime and nighttime. In the case of Añelo, it is a city that does not restbut due to the growing activity of the hand of the development of Vaca Muerta that does not know schedules. Born as a town of farmers, at 108 years old it seeks accompany the present and the predicted future of the shale formation most important in the country.
With an eye on the results that each well yields, Vaca Muerta became a key factor in betting on the country’s energy sovereignty. Being the closest town, Añelo experienced constant changes in a short time: “it is very overwhelming and difficult to keep up with the growth of the activity and what it develops,” indicated the outgoing mayor, Milton Morales in dialogue with Energía On.
«The activity today generates many very strong blows. It is a radical change that the city is experiencing day by day. The imprint it makes on him is impressive because he brings a very different pace of life than he had. Today it is practically a city that does not sleep«Morales stressed. Indeed, traffic is constant and decreases little at night, so services such as gastronomy and hotels remain in operation.
The communal chief estimated that From Monday to Monday, regarding 30,000 people move that cross the town where between 8,000 and 9,000 inhabitants live. Añelo is one of the departments with the highest demographic growth in the country, according to the last census. «It revealed neither more nor less than reality. Añelo grew five times more in the last three years, above the country’s average“, frame.
They are joined by families seeking to establish themselves due to the announced opportunities offered by Vaca Muerta. This number of people that is increasing more and more put the foot on the accelerator to develop infrastructure that manages to contain it.
- 30.000
- people move from Monday to Monday to Añelo
Echo of this situation are the gas works that were demanded on several occasions to supply different neighborhoods. In May of this year, neighbors blocked routes to demand the installation of the service for the La Meseta sector, a few kilometers from the deposits. The conflict was unblocked following provincial authorities signed an agreement to begin the promised gas works in October 2022.
«We have been working with an agreement that we made with the National Government for a gas stage. The work is almost complete. Only some main branch connections are missing. Then we have a gas project that the Provincial government also contracted through the National government for the rest of the La Meseta sector that has been advancing very quickly. We hope to have it by the end of the year“, he pointed.
With private investment, municipal management made progress in sewer services and with the electrification of 270 lots. «We are doing very well. A linear park is being completed on the plateau, it is a park that has a little more than three hectares, which is the entire circumference of the high fence with pedestrian access for people from the ground floor to La Meseta with lighting,” he explained.
The lack of infrastructure «It is a constant challenge“, frame. It will be a situation that the next mayor, Fernando Banderet, will also have to face. In previous dialogues, he expressed that he will face it through three axes: economic reparation, expansion of the municipal ejido and the recategorization of the municipality. Thus, it plans to obtain more co-participation and greater autonomy to accompany growth projections.
A few months following finishing his term, Morales highlighted the good dialogue he maintains with Banderet, with whom he has been working for more than 12 years. “I always say: the best is yet to come and is always yet to be done and Añelo needs the help of everyone, of men and women who project the best for this city,” Morales highlighted.
Añelo Anniversary: the objective of diversifying the productive matrix
Since the productive development of Vaca Muerta began in 2011, Añelo’s productive matrix was transformed. It went from being a town made up of farmers to “generating everything that hydrocarbon activity requires: industrial parks, companies that were generating labor and different services for the industry to which are added hotels and gastronomy,” he explained.
In total, they have four industrial parks and affect regarding 360 hectares. There are around 260 established companies. «We are regarding to start a fifth industrial park that is a model. “It will be from a private initiative,” he said. It will be located in La Meseta on the ring road of the new route of Route 17.
In productive matters, a large part is established on the side of the Neuquén River, a margin that limits the municipal ejido. There they produce grass, heads of cattle “that It is coming along very well and growing by leaps and bounds.. In the province he positioned himself with a feed lot (intensive cattle fattening) of very good quality that is advancing exponentially in recent times,” he highlighted.
To accompany the diversification of the productive matrix, The training of professionals in Añelo is an objective that transcends procedures. «We have been working to make this a reality: to have our own human resource of young people and adults who make the decision to continue studying and professionalize to to be able to generate a different society, which is growing«he highlighted.
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