DAVAO CITY, Jan. 31 -- This city is linking up with national government agencies to push its waste-to-energy (WTE) project and comply with requirements for national government funding needed to build the facility.

Assistant City Administrator Tristan Dwight Domingo said the local government initially partnered with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to conform with the prerequisites and get approval from the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) Board for the proposal.

"Just recently, the city wrote DENR to follow up on the plans to form a technical working group (TWG) for the project," Domingo said in a statement Tuesday.

He said the TWG will be composed of the city government project team, the DEN...