Dissatisfied with the administration of the Nueva La Punilla reservoir venture by the MOP, the president of the Ñuble River Surveillance Board, Fernando Rueda, who represents almost 5 thousand irrigators who will profit from the venture that’s meant to be inbuilt San Fabian of Alico.
The tender, which started in November 2021, already has six extensions, the final of which was introduced final April, by which the receipt of technical provides from firms concerned about being awarded the concession was postponed till December 20. which, in line with the Minister of Public Works, Jéssica López, was as a result of cancellation of the environmental qualification decision of the Punilla-San Fabián transmission line, a complementary work that may enable the evacuation of the power generated sooner or later hydroelectric plant related to the reservoir, and which is a key piece of the concession’s enterprise mannequin.
Given the quite a few extensions, do you continue to belief the desire of President Boric’s authorities to finish the reservoir?
At this level, the progress or materialization of a venture just like the Nueva La Punilla Reservoir isn’t a matter of belief in a authorities, we choose to be guided by details and fewer by phrases. Why do I put it that means? As a result of, on the one hand, we have now heard on multiple event from Minister Jéssica López herself, assuring that the federal government’s will is to advance the reservoir; Nonetheless, the details don’t present that very same will and we have already got a brand new extension in our arms, the fifth within the present authorities. That, in itself, tells you one thing. Within the final assembly held with the minister, right here within the area on April 4, he reiterated the federal government’s dedication to this venture, and much more particularly, he commented that of his ministry’s reservoir portfolio, Nueva la Punilla is the which enjoys precedence on this administration, due to this fact, we wish this provision to be translated into concrete actions.
How do you consider communication with the MOP?
It is likely one of the many low factors of how the venture has been carried out and we have now raised it numerous occasions. It’s no secret that we don’t like how the venture is carried out and led. We are able to say with certainty that, if it weren’t for us, who’ve sought alternatives to fulfill with ministers, undersecretaries and ministers of the present authorities, communication could be zero. The Surveillance Board has promoted dialogue, at all times in collaboration with parliamentarians, since, in any other case, it might have been troublesome to coordinate direct communication with the authorities. Then again, the authority has systematically prevented a dialog with the beneficiaries of the venture, that’s, with the irrigators.
What ought to enhance within the relationship between the MOP and irrigators?
I feel that, at this level, utilizing a really colloquial time period, “the ball is within the MOP’s favor.” In the event that they need to promote dialogue, dialogue will exist. We irrigators have at all times been prepared to speak and work, in every assembly we repeat that we’re at their disposal, however it’s well-known that when there is just one get together concerned about finishing the communication, the potential for materializing that dialogue is sterile. We should at all times take into account that this communication and joint work level to a higher good, reaching the development of the reservoir, crucial irrigation venture for the Ñuble area, which on the native degree means a strong different for social and financial progress for the Ñublensinos. We’ve got at all times conveyed that, for a venture of this magnitude, much more so contemplating that Ñuble is the area with the best and most pressing want for reservoirs to be constructed, the MOP ought to have an official who clearly and well timed communicates the standing of progress. Resting on your beloved’s will and time is a mistake, since you can’t give him the precedence he requires.
What expectations do you might have from the continuing bidding course of relating to investor curiosity?
Expectations stay excessive given the urgency in finishing a piece that may present irrigation safety to just about 60 thousand hectares, along with delivering water to irrigate 7,100 new hectares, and profit greater than 5 thousand farmers and their households. That makes us stay agency on this objective. So far as we all know, investor curiosity exists and we hope that it may be awarded as quickly as doable and with out additional delay.
Was a brand new postponement of the tender justified as a result of cancellation of the RCA of the Punilla-San Fabián line?
We imagine that it’s one thing that ought to have been foreseen. We had been clear about it and we raised it with the MOP on multiple event, nevertheless it was not thought-about. Right here we’re speaking a few lack of strategic imaginative and prescient, which additionally reveals an absence of rigor in the best way we imagine a venture of those traits must be carried out.
Do you take into account that this era of postponements has made it doable to include responses to the social and environmental calls for raised by the neighborhood of San Fabián, as argued by the MOP?
We have no idea, we think about so, as a result of time invested and we hope, for the nice of the neighborhood of San Fabián and its environment, the venture itself and the irrigators themselves, that this would be the case. These options are welcome. We’ve got at all times been clear in stating that we would like the reservoir to be constructed, and that it’s completed in the very best means. We’re not towards the social and environmental calls for of San Fabián, quite the opposite, we would like the perfect for that neighborhood. We imagine that the reservoir may have a optimistic affect on varied dimensions of human life. Subsequently, the spirit that strikes us is to have the ability to materialize a strategic work for Ñuble, which not solely factors to irrigation as a vital pillar, but additionally to all of the financial actions of a area that should overcome poverty ranges.
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