Engineer Wael Radwan, Executive Director of the Bioenergy Foundation for Sustainable Development, and the Foundation’s work team, in implementation of the directives of Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, made a field visit to the target site to implement a project to establish a system for the safe management of animal and agricultural waste in the Qabouti area in Port Said and use it to generate biogas fuel. And organic fertilizers, with the support of the Italian company Eni and the Egyptian petroleum sector, as part of the work of the committee formed to conduct a preliminary study for the project.
The project is a model for integration between the government, the private sector and civil society
The Executive Director of the Foundation and the work team also inspected a number of farms located in the vicinity of the targeted site to determine the amount of animal waste generated from them, which is the most important input for the project, in order to prepare an initial feasibility study for the project and study the environmental, social and economic returns resulting from it.
Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, had held a meeting with Eng. Tarek El-Molla, Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, and Major General Adel Al-Ghadban, Governor of Port Said, via video conference, with representatives of the Italian company ENI and a number of officials of the General Petroleum Corporation, its subsidiaries and the Ministry of Environment, in the presence of Dr. Alaa Azouz, Head of the Agricultural Extension Sector at the Ministry of Agriculture, and Eng. Wael Radwan, Executive Director of the Bioenergy Foundation for Sustainable Development, to discuss the proposal submitted by the Italian company Eni and its partners in Egypt to study the implementation of this project and the resulting positive returns to preserve the environment as well as the economic benefits for the project area.
This comes within the framework of the Ministry’s plan to expand biogas units to make the most of agricultural and animal waste, and to spread this technology in the various governorates of the Republic.
It is worth noting that the Bioenergy Corporation is a central non-profit organization that was established by the Ministry of Environment in cooperation with the United Nations Development Program by a decision of the Council of Ministers in July 2015. It is an organization registered with the Ministry of Social Solidarity and Law No. 149 of 2019 applies to it. It aims to disseminate technologies Bioenergy in Egypt, removing all technical obstacles and institutional barriers to assist in the application and dissemination of these technologies by providing technical support to transfer the latest technologies in the field of bioenergy through the implementation of pioneering projects in partnership with international and local bodies.