DISUR To Discuss Possible Projects for Petrochemical Sites in Guayanilla, Penuelas

 

(Ponce, Puerto Rico – September 6, 2011) – Desarrollo Integral del Sur, Inc. (DISUR) discloses the result of several conversations with residents of Guayanilla and Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, who live in areas adjacent to vacant lots that were once occupied by petrochemical industries. Also, DISUR will announce which projects could be undertaken on the grounds of the industrial complex, where today structures of a once thriving petrochemical industry are now just rusted scrap metal.  At the meeting, scheduled for September 14, 2011, at the Convention Center of Barrio Indios, Guayanilla, DISUR will discuss the projects that the residents of nine affected communities proposed as alternatives for a land reuse plan that DISUR is developing, according to DISUR executive director, Jacqueline Rodriguez Hernandez.

 

DISUR is a private nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote and maximize competitiveness and sustainable socioeconomic development of the Southern Region. DISUR also integrates the efforts and resources from the public, private, academic sectors, as well as the citizen who are residents of the southern area in order to achieve a better quality of life.The organization brings together the efforts of fifteen communities in south Puerto Rico: Adjuntas, Arroyo, Coamo, Guanica, Guayama, Guayanilla, Jayuya, Juana Diaz, Patillas, Peñuelas, Ponce, Salinas, Santa Isabel, Villalba, and Yauco.For more information visit www.disur.org, twitter.com/disurPR or facebook.com/disurPR.