North waste between solution and crisis … does the authority revoke its decision?

There was virtually no hope of restoring the neighborhoods of Zgharta, Bcharri, Minieh-Denniye and Kura, the clean air of the north and to get rid of the odors of waste, especially in Zgharta, where garbage invade the streets with picturesque landscapes, until the northern scene is further aggravated by the rejection of the inhabitants Zgharta landfill site in Trebol and transport of waste from the outside of Minieh- Denniyeh. This objection has been demonstrated by the blocking of roads, sit-ins and demonstrations, and the activities of northerners have also been condemned by statements and statements. This fact warns of a possible confrontation between protesters and security forces supporting the trucks carrying waste to Triple, especially after a confrontation between one of the elements of security and a woman who s'. turned out to be his sister. Those who oppose the state's decision or the authority of the objections, regardless of their background and their true motivators?

After the decision to freeze the Trebel landfill and the problems surrounding the land provided by the owner of the El Mirador complex, Ahmed Alam El-Din, it was agreed to start working on this landfill with the approval of the Prime Minister. Minister Saad Hariri and with security support under the leadership of the Minister of the Interior and Municipalities. Hbadan
Since last night, the waste transfer from Zgharta, the most affected by the waste crisis in the four districts of the north of the country, began after the closure of the enemy landfill, which does not meet the environmental standards of Dinniyeh. Since the beginning of trucks carrying waste, demonstrations, objections and blocking roads have begun. The waste has also been "tempered" and some have expressed reluctance to transfer waste from "Christian areas" into "Islamic areas".

Hariri's position

It was not possible to begin work in the Triple's landfill without Hariri's approval. The Governor of the North, Judge Ramzi Nahra, after chairing a meeting in Saray in Tripoli, said that "we received the Interior Minister's decision to step into Triple's landfill, and we informed the forces of security. Procedure. As the administration, municipalities and federation of municipalities, we continue to implement the resolution up to now, while awaiting any political or governmental development. "

However, yesterday, the Secretary General of the Future Movement, Ahmad Hariri, is held alongside the protesters. He stressed in a statement: "We will not accept Mount Treble as a malicious dump at the expense of our population, young and old," noting that "the issue of Mount Treble is an environmental health issue par excellence. we will not allow to politicize or temper or try to exploit the growing populism of some in their respective regions. " "At the expense of people."

He said: "The inhabitants of Minya know their reefs and their mountains, and there is no word above their right word that rejects the establishment of the dump, and their word our word and we, them and a word and a cry in front of all those concerned: do not set up the dump, neither today nor any day. "

Spectrum of interception

Hariri's words come after protesters have asked each district to manage their garbage. After stating that the discharge on three landfills would cause damage to the groundwater, despite the presence of the Minister of the Environment Fadi Jreissati at a press conference held yesterday, the establishment of insulators to prevent leachate leaking into the soil and groundwater.

He asked: "Are tons of garbage on the streets less dangerous than a site with the discharge and the approval of the Prime Minister for refining the centrifuge? Where do we compromise on people's health? There are those who say that they have divided the districts. Lebanon can not be divided into small solutions because it does not live and we said that the sorting facilities that we intend to create should be great for 200 and 300 tons. "We are talking about the economy and numbers, not populism," he said.

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On the other hand, the sources of the Future Movement refuse to consider the objection of the population of Minieh-Dinniyeh as a cult and tell Al-Jumhuriya that the problem is regional: each region refuses to transfer the waste from other regions.

She expressed her understanding of the objections, surprising to see "how other regions refuse to treat waste on their territory and accusing others of sectarianism and regional", stressing "the absence of any scientific research and rebaduring the public that waste treatment will be done without causing harm to the region and its inhabitants ".

"The atmosphere is bad and will lead to new clashes," she said following the demonstrations in the field.

Othman Alameldin, MP for Minieh-Denniyeh, said that "people do not trust the state, especially with regard to waste, after the crisis of waste that has plagued the country for years", explaining that the objection is to "transfer the waste from the four districts to" There is a demand to spread the distribution of waste between districts and not all in Treble, under the environmental conditions laid out in the decisive guidelines of Prime Minister Hariri . "

"We are trying to calm the resentment of the population," he said. "We also understand that there is no alternative to Triple 's landfill, although this step is unpopular". He stressed "that we will not accept the collision of the demonstrators with the security forces and that we will be observers to work in the landfill if it continues to respect the environmental conditions".

Zgharta is waiting

This objection on the Minieh-Denniyeh road was expected yesterday in Zgharta, but the emergence of a solution to the waste crisis via the triple landfill prompted the "opposition movement to the waste file in the north "To postpone the planned move yesterday, announcing" the maintenance of efforts by the state and local authorities. " Get rid of and dispel the legitimate concerns and concerns of opponents in order to find a lasting and healthy solution to this crisis. "

While the head of the "Movement for Independence", the MP Michel Moawad, this week held an important position on the waste crisis in the north of the country, stressing that "all attacks, auctions and protective measures have nothing to do with the proposed solutions, neither with groundwater nor with communities, but people seeking to control the plant sorting and renting land the state favors financial transactions at the expense of the health of our children. "A member of the" Strong Lebanon "bloc only prefers what he said and did not speak until the waste problem is solved.

MP Tony Franjieh said in a tweet that "our concern for the health of people and the preservation of the environment and groundwater is a priority and there is no no place to bid in the north, north of coexistence.We will follow the techniques strictly according to the highest sanitary and environmental standards to prevent the risk of contamination or toxins ".

Public Works Minister Youssef Fenianos said, "The task of leaders and leaders is to work for the benefit of the people and not for the implementation of their wishes. It is not allowed before the objection and the interest to leave there the waste of 4 districts between people and their homes, "and explained that" the security forces of the " army and internal security forces do not have it Only to provide support when implementing the decision of the Ministers of the Environment and the Interior ".

"Forces" supports the Minister of the Environment

While Zgharta is the most affected, garbage has flooded its streets, leading to the start of the Zgharta waste transfer to the landfill before the other districts. Bcharri is waiting for the solution, hoping to be able to continue working in the Treble landfill, he is suffering the crisis but recovers his waste on specific lands. Spread on the roads.

"It seems that the crisis is about to find a solution and that the executive must solve it and rebadure people that it will not hurt them," said MP Joseph Isaac in Al-Gomhoria.

He explained that "the inhabitants of Denniyeh, Zgharta, Bcharri and Koura districts are not the ones who chose the landfill, but that the government and the Ministry of Environment specifically chose the appropriate sites after conducting the necessary studies including study of impact on the environment, rejecting "logic" Christian areas "and other Islamic".

"We will continue to work on the triple dumps to rebadure our people that no harm will be done to them," he said, adding that "any landfill is far better than waste management. between houses ".

He stressed that "we are communicating with the Ministry of the Environment and put our hope in the Minister of Environment because we consider it serious and we are trying to find solutions. We are therefore at his side to find a good temporary solution, as well as a sustainable solution, in accordance with the climate of the meeting held with the Government Presidency and Ministries of the Environment and Environment. He stressed that "coordination and communication with all parties concerned continues as this problem does not concern one region or part, but all four districts".

While the four northern districts have the same problem, the crisis becomes a problem between these districts. Following the protests, the northern waste crisis is awaiting the return of the United States of Hariri to deliver its frank speech about Triple's discharge. As for the people concerned, he had already delivered his speech to continue the work and ask: is it a retreat from objections?