The Environmental Management Bureau confirms that it has not issued the required environmental compliance certificate for the P2-billion palm oil plantation project
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The Group of Environmental Socialists Incorporated , Green Alert Network-Negros Island Region , and the Gatuslao Agroforestry Banana Sugarcane and Coconut Farmers Association banded together, denouncing HAPI’s operations as illegal. A letter from the EMB, addressed to local stakeholders, read: “Please be informed that this office has not yet received an application for an Environmental Compliance Certificate for the said project. We will be conducting a Technical Conference to address the issues and concerns regarding the project.”
He said that in 2022, the local government had sought a co-management agreement with the DENR, which would have allowed them to intervene and protect the area’s rich biodiversity and watershed, portions of which fall within the project area.
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