An Ogun State-based real estate firm, Pelican Valley Nigeria Limited, has harped on the importance of waste to energy conversion in order to create an eco-friendly community in the state.
This was revealed when a veteran journalist, Jelil Badmus, who recently partnered with the firm on biogas production, was taken on a guided tour of the firm’s estate in Masa- Kobape area of the state.
Badmus, who ventured into bio-digester technology after about three decades of journalism practice, disclosed that biogas production will help create the eco-friendly, zero-carbon emission and green environment which the firm is working to ignite in the Kobape area of the state.
Speaking on the partnership with the firm, Badmus said the way forward in the 21st century is the green environment, adding that “if you don’t go green, you destroy yourself.”
He said: “You exchange with plants when they release oxygen as waste, you absorb oxygen for your own life and when you release carbon-dioxide as your waste, plants pick it for food production (photosynthesis).
“The initiator got it right by calling it Ecostay. Even with an air conditioned system, you can’t compare it with natural air from God.”
In his remarks, Chief Executive Officer of Pelican Valley, Babatunde Adeyemo, said the firm will not relent on its effort to ignite an eco-friendly environment at the estate that is free from carbon emission.
“He has just concluded a bio-digester for us at Pelican Valley Estate. Now, we will engage him for the Ecostay Apartments and Pelican Brief Estate where we want to ignite a smart city and where we want luxury to meet nature.
“We are combining two things here and we want it to be as natural as possible. Instead of us digging a soakaway which has the possibility of degrading the environment, we are looking at a bio digester, which can help with biogas production to generate electricity.
“We already have a 500kVA transformer. The estates are fully energised and connected to a 33KVA trunk line that supplies us about 20-22 hours of electricity per day. We just need an alternative power supply that can cover for the remaining 2 or 3 hours on average,” Adeyemo said.
He further urged other journalists to have backup businesses that can bring them more income, adding that the firm has partnered with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) to provide interest-free loans for journalists with side projects.
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