CEBU CITY, Phillippines — A Capitol official seeks to condemn the actions of the Mines and Geosciences Bureau in Central Visayas (MGB-7) in issuing the ore transport permits (OTP) that allowed
Board Member John Ismael Borgonia filed before the Sangguniang Panlalawigan Secretary on Tuesday, September 8, a resolution condemning the issuance of the OTPs “in absence of public transparency and consultation of Cebuanos and in utmost disregard to the authority of the local government of the Province of Cebu.” His resolution will be discussed during the PB session on Monday, September 14.
Borgonia, who chairs the Committee on Environmental Conservation and Natural Resources, said they found during a meeting held on Tuesday morning that there was no prior public consultation on the extraction of the minerals in the southern Cebu town of Alcoy and its eventual use for the Manila Bay rehabilitation project.
Borgonia added that during the meeting, the MGB and the representatives of the mining firm operating in the town failed to produce an environmental impact study on the extraction of the dolomite rocks despite the location of the extraction which is supposedly within the fringe of the Alcoy forest cover. Alcoy town is considered the habitat of the endangered bird black shama, locally known as Siloy, which is endemic in Cebu.
“The act constituted a violation of a number of environmental principle and laws which include the precautionary principle in the Rules of Procedure for Environmental Cases, A.M. 09-6-8-SC, Section 8 of DENR Administrative Order No. 2010-01, and the DENR Department Administrative Order No. 2003-02,” Borogonia’s proposed resolution cited.
“The issuance of an ore transport permit disregards the environment impact and preservation of a critical area in Cebu,” it added.On Tuesday afternoon, Governor Gwendolyn Garcia had issued a cease and desist order against the mining firm and the mineral processing firms in Alcoy prohibiting the two from further extracting, processing, selling, and transporting dolomites, associated mineral deposits, and other quarry materials.
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