Subject: Fw: Mexico City Mayor's speech at the Closure of the Bordo Poniente landfill (translated by Ricardo and Rafael)
From: Amitabh Desai <[email-masked]>
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Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:30:50 -0500

Nice mention of CF by Mexico City Mayor during his announcement of their landfill project:

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From: Karen Luken
To: Amitabh Desai
Sent: Tue Dec 20 09:48:32 2011
Subject: FW: Mexico City Mayor's speech at the Closure of the Bordo Poniente landfill (translated by Ricardo and Rafael)

FYI
Karen M Luken | C40, in partnership with the Clinton Climate Initiative|Global Director –  Solid Waste and Wastewater  | +1 513 476 [email-masked] | www.C40.org<http://www.C40.org>

From: Rafael Ramos
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 9:16 PM
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Subject: Mexico City Mayor's speech at the Closure of the Bordo Poniente landfill (translated by Ricardo and Rafael)

Bordo Poniente landfill, municipality of Nezahualcoyotl, State of Mexico, December 19, 2011

Mexico City Mayor, Marcelo Ebrard Announced the Closure of the Bordo Poniente landfill, effective December 19, 2011

The Mayor of Mexico City, Marcelo Ebrard, announced today (December 19, 2011) the closure of the Bordo Poniente landfill, with the following words (integral text):

“In the year 2008, Mexico City presented the Climate Action Program, where it was identified to be conducted in this administration the closure of the Bordo Poniente landfill and the utilization of the landfill gas. This single action will reduce (in the first year) the emission of about 2 million tons of green house gases.

The closure was accomplished by the instrumentation of a complex negotiation process. To be able to reach this objective, at the end, we obtained the support from the Federal Environmental Secretary and the Federal National Water Commission, under the basic principle to reduce every day the disposition of 12 thousand 600 hundred tons of solid waste.

The City’s Secretaries of Public Works and Servicse and the Environment and the Commission for the Integral Management of Solid Waste planned an ambitious route to reach this goal which is the Solid Waste Separation, because in this way the organic wastes can be diverted to produce compost in the plant you see behind me. In addition, next January there is going to start operations a plant to transform the construction debris into a material useful for public works in the City, instead of finishing in the bottom of ravines and green areas. Inorganic solid waste will be used in a financially sound manner.

All the above bring us today to start the closure of the Bordo Poniente landfill, in fulfillment of what we offered to.

Today was published in the Mexico City´s Official Gazette the Statement of Need to concession, though an international tender, the utilization of the biogas and the finance and infrastructure implementation with the charge to close the IV Stage of the Bordo Poniente landfill. This will be the largest GHG reduction project in the world today which allow us to reach the Climate Action Program reduction goals.

The compost plant will continue operating, as well as the construction and demolition residues plant and we will start the tender process for transforming the biogas into energy.

Next January we will invite the President of the Mexican Republic, the Governor of the State of Mexico, the Federal Secretary of  the Environment, the Director General of the National Commission of Water and the officials from Secretary of the Interior that have been working with us, to present the operated closed landfill and the next steps: what technologies we are going to apply, how we are going to do it, how long will it take us. We have to work together: the federal government, the State of Mexico and the Federal District (Mexico City).

In conclusion:

·         Starting today, November 19, 2011, we close the Bordo Poniente landfill. The closure was programmed for the last day of this year, but we are doing it a few days before because we still have to do some adjustments in processes and logistics.

·         Initiates the tender process for new technologies for the utilization of the biogas.

·         Contribute with the emission reduction of 2 million tons of GHG(in the first year of utilization) as proposed in the recent Air Quality Improvement Program announced last week.

This is very a good news for the City.

In particular,  I want to thank, of course, the support of the William Clinton Foundation that have accompanied us along all the process; the City’s Commission for the Integral Management of Solid Waste; the Secretary of the Environment; the Secretary of Public Works and Services; the Secretary of Governance and to Don Pablo (workers’ leader of the Bordo Poniente selection plant ) who has have a very relevant role in this process and who made this possible; and of course to many other people who are here, that have accompanied us along this long journey of complex and complicated decisions, but at the end of the day we get things done.

Closing the Bordo Poniente landfill is one of the most important environmental actions of the whole country. If we can do that here, why cannot we do that elsewhere, or why not we do replicate it in other complex, difficult and costly  actions?

When there is a very high grade of complexity, but there is a common objective and we get it done, then we get the impulse to move forward for new objectives.

Thank you very much.