Ndalatando - The Minister of Energy and Water, João Baptista Borges, asked for greater attention from the entities involved in the construction of the Caculo Cabaça dam, in complying with the conditions for mitigating environmental effects.
Speaking to the press, at the end of a meeting of the Technical Committee for the Management and Monitoring of Works, held on Thursday, João Baptista Borges warned that failure to comply with this assumption could compromise financing.
João Baptista Borges explained that although an environmental study was carried out at the time of the project and regularly monitored by financial institutions, more attention is needed in fulfilling environmental obligations within the perimeter of the dam construction.
He assured that the Middle Kwanza Hydroelectric Development Office (GAMEK) is attentive to this situation, so as not to compromise the project's financing.
The construction work on the Caculo Cabaça dam, which began in 2017 and which corresponds to the third hydroelectric stage of the middle Kwanza waterfall, is a cylinder-compacted concrete gravity infrastructure measuring 103 meters high.
It has a very small reservoir with a flooding area of 16 square kilometers.
The infrastructure is valued at more than five billion dollars and currently has 2,500 employees, including nationals and foreigners.
The project is co-financed by the People's Republic of China, in the civil construction component and the associated transport system, worth 4.5 billion dollars and Germany, in the supply and assembly of electromechanical equipment, budgeted at 1 .02 billion.
The Caculo Cabaça hydroelectric project is expected to produce two thousand 172 megawatts (MW).
The development will be part of a range of dams on the middle Kwanza, where there are already those at Cambambe (Cuanza Norte), Capanda and Laúca (Malanje).
The construction of the dam is being carried out by the Chinese state-owned group China Gezhouba Group. EFM/IMA/OHA/DOJ
