Tinian casino investors, the Tinian mayor, U.S. military officials, and other stakeholders reconvene today to seek solutions for Tinian\u2019s open-air dump.<\/p>\n
Alter City Group managing director Ken Lin and Tinian Mayor Joey Patrick San Nicolas said last week they would be meeting with U.S. military officials today, Feb. 2., to discuss the cost estimates of shipping this waste off-island.<\/p>\n
The open-air dump sits on ACG\u2019s vast Puntan Diablo property and presents a hurdle for them to get their $1.2-billion investment realized.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a dump, it is an open dump,\u201d Lin said. \u201cTo us, it\u2019s been an issue for the past two years, but for the people of Tinian, it\u2019s been an issue for the past 45 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to cap the dump properly in order for our resort and develop to happen on our site. How can we call it a world class resort with an open dump?\u201d<\/p>\n
Lin emphasized the issue was to cap the dump in a proper way.<\/p>\n
San Nicolas said they would be receiving a report from the U.S. Marines on landfill study.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we need to know what the actual cost of shipping trash to Saipan will be. It is the military who took that task,\u201d San Nicolas said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will be discussing the issue of costs of transferring garbage,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
He acknowledged the dump was a two-side problem of capping the dump and transferring its waste. \u201cBut taking it from Tinian and shipping it, we don\u2019t have the numbers as of yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Military issues<\/strong><\/p>\n On the issue of the U.S military, Lin said they are creating easement roads for the U.S military to travel on. <\/p>\n Lin wants to make clear to military officials that they are \u201chere to stay\u201d and to bring a world-class resort to Tinian. \u201cWe want to co-exist with the military,\u201d he said, referring to the military\u2019s live-fire training plans on the island.<\/p>\n Asked if his comments meant they were backing off their strongly worded written comments they submitted on these intensive live-fire plans, Lin said, no. <\/p>\n \u201cThe truth is\u2014anybody with a mindset of a 10-year-old will know that\u2014you are not going have peace, tranquility, and a world class resort next to a bombshell. This is just a fact. <\/p>\n \u201cIt is a risk for us as investors,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Lin said they want to sit down and urge the military to reconsider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tinian casino investors, the Tinian mayor, U.S. military officials, and other stakeholders reconvene today to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[900],"tags":[6284,200,2028,1339],"class_list":["post-219980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","tag-ken-lin","tag-military","tag-puntan-diablo","tag-san-nicolas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}