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Rizal imposes general mining moratorium

by Sentinel Times November 27, 2020 BINANGONAN, Rizal - The Binangonan, Rizal town government has issued a notice that the quarry road at IQ...

by Sentinel Times
November 27, 2020


Rizal imposes general mining moratorium




BINANGONAN, Rizal - The Binangonan, Rizal town government has issued a notice that the quarry road at IQAC-Calavar Quarry, Barangay Palangoy in Binangonan will be closed on November 30,2020 at around 4:00 pm. According to the notice, the cleaning time will be held around 3:00 pm and the blasting time will be between 4:00 and 4:15.

In a letter to President Rodrigo Duterte on November 18, Governor Rebecca Ynares said that "so unfortunate that to date, we have not been informed of [any] action taken" by the national government in the province's long-standing call.



The letter from Ynares, followed by an earlier letter from the provincial government to former President Benigno Aquino III, also called for a "general moratorium or suspension" on mining and quarry permits, whether provided by the local government or the Mines and Geosciences Bureau in the Laguna de Bay area.

In August 2018, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) banned quarry permits following the floods left by the Southern Monsoon, but only repealed the ban two months later.



Quarrying, mainly for basalt supplied to Metro Manila, covers a total area of ​​278 hectares in the province. Isidro Mercado, provincial environmental officer, said all 29 quarry companies in the province operate "outside the protected area."

According to Mercado said the recent floods in the towns of Rodriguez and San Mateo were the result of excessive saturated soil and excessive rainfall (365 millimeters to 368 mm recorded in Tanay, Rizal) dumped by Ulysses.



He said the 698-square-kilometer Upper Marikina River Basin, which covers parts of Rizal, Bulacan and Metro Manila, remained intact and free from human activity, although several titled properties surrounding the watershed had long been developed into subdivisions.

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