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Angola`s Cabinet Council in Luanda approved the contract
for rehabilitation of the Gove dam (central Huambo province),
the construction of hydro-electric station and respective
sub-station, due to its importance for the country`s economic
and social development, particularly for central and southern
regions, in an investment of USD 158 million.
The implementation of the plan will enable the regular supply
of water to the localities of Xangongo-Ondjiva and Santa
Clara-Cunene, electrical energy to the provinces of Huambo
and Bié, as well as water to the watered perimeters
along Cunene river, reads the communique that emerged from
Cabinet’s extraordinary session.
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of the meeting, presided over by the head of State, José
Eduardo dos Santos, the minister of Energy and Water, Botelho de
Vasconcelos, said that the project, set to be implemented within
30 months, will cost some USD 158 million and employ 600 workers.
"The contract, equipment and labour are estimated at USD 150
million. The inspection, the executive projects and technical assistance
estimated at about USD 8 million ", explained the Angolan Cabinet
member.
With the potential to supply electricity to the country`s southern
region, the undertaking, according to the minister, will benefit
from an intervention in order to increase the capacity of storing
water, with view to covering, agricultural farming and all Cunene`s
basin.
"It is an important project as the Gove dam had, in the past,
the function to regularise the Cunene`s central hydro graphic basin
discharge with a capacity of 60 megawatts, and transmission lines
that will benefit the country`s two central provinces of Huambo
and Bié", noted the minister. Source: Angop |
