{"id":4817,"date":"2012-12-17T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/?p=4817"},"modified":"2013-01-03T15:59:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T20:59:24","slug":"video-alvaro-noboa-is-expressed-on-the-situation-of-water-and-gas-pipeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/news\/video-alvaro-noboa-is-expressed-on-the-situation-of-water-and-gas-pipeline\/","title":{"rendered":"[VIDEO] Alvaro Noboa Talked About the Situation of Water and Gas Pipeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I DON\u2019T AGREE WITH <em>INTERAGUA<\/em> OR WITH THE GAS PIPELINE <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The press conference called <strong>by \u00c1lvaro Noboa<\/strong> was with the objective of making his opinion on two fundamental issues known:\u00a0 <strong>the design of the gas pipeline and the high cost of water. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI ask <em>Interagua<\/em> to improve its efficiency and to maintain the tariff, and in regards to the issue of the gas pipeline, the responsible party is <em>Petroecuador<\/em>, which is the government, given that the manner in which they have designed the gas pipeline is very dangerous to human life.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am <strong>the Defender of the People, <\/strong>stated <strong>\u00c1lvaro Noboa, I am the defender of the poor<\/strong>, who are concerned about the water issue and of the people living closely to where the gas pipeline goes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is unacceptable for <em>INTERAGUA<\/em> to aim to raise their tariff.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe design via the coast puts the inhabitants of that zone in danger, after which it goes through all of the Basti\u00f3n Popular and Flor de Basti\u00f3n [regions], which, when the design was done, were uninhabited zones.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Noboa stated that he is not an engineer and therefore could not give a technical solution, <strong>\u201cbut rather to simply tell <em>Petroecuador<\/em> to not cross those populated zones.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UV1VA6bHhqw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>PRESS CONFERENCE<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>Ecuadorians, I want to touch on two issues of great public interest:\u00a0 the issue of water and the issue of the gas pipeline. I am the defender of the people. I am the defender of the poor, who are those who vote for me, and are very concerned about the issue of the water, for the rise in tariffs for water, which is what <em>Interagua<\/em> is asking. Therefore, I ask <em>Interagua<\/em> to improve their efficiency and to maintain the current tariff. And as regards the gas pipeline, well, the responsible party for that is <em>Petroecuador<\/em>, that is to say, the government. Experts in this, as well as the poor, have shown me that the manner in which the pipeline is designed is very dangerous to human life. First, there is a zone in which it comes by the road along the coast, which puts the inhabitants of that zone in danger. After that, it crosses all of what are Basti\u00f3n Popular and Flor de Basti\u00f3n [regions], which, before they created this design were not inhabited zones. But today, they are totally inhabited, and if in the United States, which is a very technically advanced country, there have been gas pipeline explosions, imagine the dangers that the people at the entrance to Guayaquil \u2013 the people of Flor de Basti\u00f3n and of Basti\u00f3n Popular \u2013 will be facing along the Coastline Highway. \u00a0Therefore, I am against this design and it needs to be redesigned so that it does not cross populated zones. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:<\/strong>\u00a0 In the case of the gas pipeline, what alternative would you suggest in order to do what is necessary? What is the greatest danger it generates?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>It could go through all the ESPOL zone, the way in back of ESPOL. But I\u2019m not an engineer and I don\u2019t want to give a technical decision, but rather simply to say to <em>Petroecuador<\/em> to not cross populated zones.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:<\/strong>\u00a0 What zone would it be occupying?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>The zones that today are very populated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:\u00a0 <\/strong>In regards to water. What would the alternative be?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>Efficiency. They say that there is a huge loss of water that is not used. Many times the pipes break, or water leaks and therefore is lost due to the porosity of the tubing. With full efficiency, that water could be regained and that would lower costs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Do they charge too much?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>At the moment, the tariff is high. Imagine that their hope is to raise it. That would be unacceptable to the people of Ecuador.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:\u00a0 <\/strong>Counselor, last week you were campaigning in Manab\u00ed. This week you are campaigning in Guayas? What do you have scheduled for the electoral campaign?<\/p>\n<p>What do you have scheduled for the electoral campaign?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>Last week I had a marvelous experience in Manab\u00ed because I visited 11 cantons, among the ones I toured were:\u00a0 Manta, Montecristi, Chone, Bah\u00eda, San Vicente, Jun\u00edn, Portoviejo, Tosagua, el Carmen, Jipijapa, Calceta.\u00a0 Imagine it, we toured all of them and well I had I great experience, with wonderful human experiences, with our great Manabite people, who typically have been those who, percentage-wise, most vote for me. We did a survey, as we finished the tour on Friday, we did survey on the weekend, and indeed, together with Correa, we are leading the polls in that province.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:\u00a0 <\/strong>What is the difference between you and President Correa in the survey done in Manab\u00ed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>There is still a distance, but one notes a fall in the number of his followers and a tendency to rise in mine. I am in second place in the national results as well. I repeat, it will still take me two months more to rise, and hopefully I will keep going up, and well, he will keep falling. It could be very similar to the election in 2006 where he said he was going to win in only one round, and where I ended up in the first round.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Counselor, are you going to be focused on Guayas this week? Will you campaign in Guayaquil?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>We will be in District 3, which is headed by my nephew Luis Noboa Ycaza, the Vice-President of <em>Barcelona<\/em>, as well as other important figures and we are going to take advantage of giving the children Christmas presents in different poor neighborhoods, because it\u2019s a festival for children and one has to celebrate with them this Christmas week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Counselor, what is the lesson that you in regards to what happened last week, in regards to the debate.\u00a0 It seems that you received apathy on the part of the population.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>There was no apathy at all. What there was is that the government channels, which have the obligation to cover the debate, didn\u2019t cover it. When you see the presidential debates in the United States, all of them are transmitted by obligation by C-SPAN which is the State channel, it\u2019s not owned by the government, it belongs to the State, because the channels don\u2019t belong to Rafael Correa, they belong to the State and the State is who is most interested in listening to the candidates and \u2013 what a surprise! \u2013 as Rafael Correa wasn\u2019t one of the members of the State, while all the rest were present, Rafael Correa decided not to send the State cameras. I hope that they will put it on again, so that the people can judge. Because in the words of Economist Correa, it would be an act of corruption not to show the People of Ecuador the thoughts of the other candidates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:<\/strong>\u00a0 In any case, you would describe it as positive?<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>The debate between us was very positive according to many commentators.\u00a0 They said I spoke in popular terms and intelligibly to all, not technically, nor had I exaggerated at any time. I was smiling a lot and very happy to debate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>The phrase that has become a famous phrase is that they can beat me at soccer, they can beat me at singing, they can beat me at boxing, but nobody can beat me at making money. That has become a very repeated phrase here in Ecuador. And my interest is in making money for the Ecuadorian people in the next years. I have made money from myself. Now I want to use this God-given talent on behalf of the poor and all Ecuadorians.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PRESS:<\/strong>\u00a0 Counselor, what distinguishes the Chinese investment that there is in the country? One doesn\u2019t see United States investment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00c1LVARO NOBOA:\u00a0 <\/strong>Well, unfortunately, in the conditions that one is living. One of the most talked about cases is the <em>Bananera Noboa <\/em>case where there is monstrous persecution, and where there is a case that is being studied in national and international courts of how it can be that they want to collect 150 times more taxes from <em>Exportadora Bananera Noboa\u00a0 <\/em>than from a foreign company like <em>Dole<\/em>. And how it can be that Mr. Economist Correa goes to visit Mr. Murdoch in the United States, he invites him to the Palace, and he doesn\u2019t give him a bill of $100 million dollars. Because nothing held them back from sending us the bill and perhaps because they are foreign, because there is always favoritism. It\u2019s like the foreigners light them up, because they pay $700,000 dollars in taxes and from us they want to impose an tax adjustment of $99 million dollars. 150 times more!\u00a0 Thank you very much.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Photo Gallery:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class='photo-galleria' ><\/div><!-- .photo-galleria -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I DON\u2019T AGREE WITH INTERAGUA OR WITH THE GAS PIPELINE The press conference called by \u00c1lvaro Noboa was with the objective of making his opinion on two fundamental issues known:\u00a0 the design of the gas pipeline and the high cost of water. \u201cI ask Interagua to improve its efficiency and to maintain the tariff, and in regards to the issue of the gas pipeline, the responsible party is Petroecuador, which is the government, given that the manner in which they have designed the gas pipeline is very dangerous to human life.\u201d I am the Defender of the People, stated \u00c1lvaro Noboa, I am the defender of the poor, who are concerned about the water issue and of the people living closely to where the gas pipeline goes. \u201cIt is unacceptable for INTERAGUA to aim to raise their tariff.\u201d \u201cThe design&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/news\/video-alvaro-noboa-is-expressed-on-the-situation-of-water-and-gas-pipeline\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55],"tags":[194],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4817"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4955,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4817\/revisions\/4955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alvaronoboa.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}