Hidroituango: first turbine up and running by July 26, says Duque - Other Cities - Colombia

President Iván Duque, together with the Minister of Mines and Energy Diego Mesa and the Comptroller General Carlos Felipe Córdoba, They visited this Saturday, March 5, the main works of the Hidroituango hydroelectric plant.

The progress of the work exceeds 87.32%, so there is a goal, for the second half of 2022, to start generating energy with the first unit, EPM previously stated.

According to what they indicate, some 8,353 people from more than 80 contractor companies work on the site, in addition to EPM employees, who are distributed in the different work fronts.

It is for this reason that the president took the opportunity to emphasize the importance of begin operations of that first turbine on July 26, according to the schedule provided by the company.

“Today the project has the supervision and monitoring of the entire government team and I hope that the delivery date of the first turbine will be met, because that is not an arbitrary date or taken from any hat, it is a date in accordance with the new schedulesDuke assured.

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On the subject, the governor of Antioquia, Aníbal Gaviria, indicated that the most important thing was to “comply with high standards.”

“That it start working as soon as possible, that it not be put in the wheel in its construction so that it starts working but all that on the understanding of the highest engineering standards”, affirmed Gaviria, according to ‘Blu Radio’.

For his part, Duque was optimistic about the progress of the construction: “With this, this great project for the energy security of our country could begin, and this project that is emblematic and, clearly, the largest energy generation project that Colombia has had, and the most sophisticated and important “added the president in his speech.

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Alejandro Char running through Córdoba - Barranquilla - Colombia

The candidate for the Presidency of the Republic Alex Charlie He completed his third day in the department of Córdoba in development of the raid through the Colombian Caribbean.

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Char arrived in the company of members of the Team for Colombia coalition. he met with Cordovan artisans, observed a cultural presentation at the monument in honor of the Cordovan minstrel Pablito Florezwhich is located in the heart of Montería.

In addition, he made a irony along the Sinú River, a typical route made by the Monterians, and there he listened and talked with the young people, whom he congratulated for their participation in politics and presented them with proposals for better opportunities in sports, entrepreneurship and quality of life.

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“I had time without seeing young people participating in politics, and if young people do not participate in politics they are not interested politicsThey don’t appear in debates, they don’t discuss, they don’t show themselves, little by little the future of this country is going to fade because who are going to be the future leaders”, expressed Char.

If young people do not participate in politics, they are not interested in politics, they do not appear in debates, they do not discuss, they do not show themselves, little by little the future of this country is going to fade.

Two important issues were raised by the young people from Cordoba and supported by Char. The first is the presence of young people in the countryside, since the countryside is running out of people every day due to the lack of priority that the Government has given to this sector, which results in higher food prices, inequality, inequity between the intermediary who buys the produce from the farmer and the price they earn, said the applicant Alex Char.

“Every day it ceases to be a business for the farmer to stay in the countryside, let’s encourage the young person to return to the countryside, to be the new protagonist of the countryside, it is essential to give life to a sector that gives food to our country, but with social justice with an intermediary who buys from you at fair prices, with technology. It seems very important to me that we support the young man from the field, to get him back on the field”.

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The other topic addressed was that of sports, the candidate assured that more attention is needed to the talented athletes that the country has, and proposed that they have a pension as soon as they stop producing, since in Colombia athletes retire early age and do not have a state that accompanies them to continue generating income.

After the tour of the Sinu River and the conversation with the young people, Cereté was the second municipality of the raid through Córdoba that the pre-candidate visited, there he met with the union of cotton growers and farmers to discuss the importance of the production of their products and how to support their work in order to advance in the construction of a country of opportunities.

The next destination and where his tour ended was Loricathe capital of white gold, Char toured the historic center and tasted the typical gastronomy of this municipality in the department of Córdoba.

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