The Chief Executive Officer of Ghana’s largest state power generation company, Volta River Authority (VRA), says the premier power generator will lead the effort to build clean and more environmentally sustainable power systems that would safeguard future generations.
Ing. Emmanuel Antwi Darkwa gave this assurance last Friday when he led officials of VRA to plant trees as part of Green Ghana Project which saw planting of about five million trees by Ghanaians across the West African nation.
“This is why we continue to embark on significant investments in renewable projects and other low carbon power generation technologies to maintain the country’s low and acceptable carbon footprint,” Ing Antwi Darkwa said as carried by the Ghana News Agency.
According to the newswire, Ing Antwi Darkwa said the Authority owed responsibility to the public to operate and ensure that all water resource systems in the country, particularly the Volta River system was kept pristine and managed in a sustainable manner.
He said the Green Ghana Project is tied to the Authority’s ‘Volta Gorge Reforestation Programme (VGRP)’ aimed at forest cover restoration through the protection of the existing vegetation and restocking of all degraded lands.
The VGRP consisted of 23 reforestation projects being implemented in 23 riparian communities along both the Eastern and Western banks of the Volta Gorge in the Asougyaman District.
“We have so far covered a substantial amount of area with new vegetative cover consisting of both plantation and natural forest”, he said.
He said the initiative was important because sustainable development was key to the Authority’s business and its stakeholders, adding that issues of climate change and environmental protection were of utmost importance to the company.
Source:www.energynewsafrica.com
