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Last activity 08 June 2022 by Guest2022

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Guest2022

Another Ministry is now taking action - against the mafias that have lived off political, police and military favouratism and have plundered natural resources without licenses. Here below are two recent actions in the past few days.

Environment files a lawsuit against a PN colonel for illegally extracting material from a mine

https://www.elcaribe.com.do/destacado/m … ma-ilegal/

The Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Orlando Jorge Mera, sued Pedro Marte Palave, a colonel of the National Police, accused of illegally extracting aggregate material from a mine located less than 15 meters from the banks of the Haina River in San Cristobal province.

The complaint was notified this Tuesday, January 25, before the magistrate Rigoberto Santana, Specialized Attorney for the Defense of the Environment and Natural Resources of that Province.........

The PN colonel has since been suspended by the Head of Police

Environment files a lawsuit against the owner of a hardware store that sold sand from Las Dunas de Bani
https://noticiassin.com/provincias/medi … ni-1223892

The Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources filed a lawsuit against Santo Valerio Franco Guzmán, owner of the El Conquistador Hardware and Transport Store, who was dedicated to marketing the sand from this important protected area.

Similarly, and through Resolution DJ-RAS-2-2022-0020, the Minister of the Environment, Orlando Jorge Mera, ordered the stoppage and immediate closure of the activities of the collection center for the extraction and transport of material and the Illegal deposit of aggregate material from this hardware store, located in the Santa Cruz sector, Peravia province.

In this collection center, which does not have the environmental authorization for this activity, approximately 32 piles of sand were found, equivalent to approximately 500 cubic meters, which, according to intelligence reports, were extracted from the Las Dunas de Baní Natural Monument.

“The legal action we have taken in Peravia, in relation to illegal extraction from Las Dunas, is just the beginning. We are fighting mafias that for many years have lived off political and military favoritism in the past. He reiterated that in this administration, there is not and will not be environmental impunity”, Orlando Jorge Mera pointed out.

Likewise, the minister ordered the seizure of the sand found in that collection center illegally, ordering its return to Las Dunas. Santo Valerio Franco Guzmán must return the sand within five days, with an aggregate material return plan.

Perhaps the illegal logging of hardwoods will be tackled more forcefully too. It is common to see wagons loaded with logs and covered by a tarpaulin coming from forested areas north of the capital and surely the police see this too.

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Wow this is progress!

Guest2022

And they have started dealing with illegal cutting of woodlands north of the capital:

Environment evicts land invaders in Villa Altagracia

https://hoy.com.do/medio-ambiente-desal … ltagracia/

The Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources, in coordination with the National Environmental Protection Service (SENPA), evicted a group of invaders in the Villa Altagracia municipality, San Cristóbal province, who were affecting the forest system, with the illegal cutting of trees. for housing construction. .............

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Awesome!

Guest2022
Jorge Mera: works were carried out without environmental permits in PLD governments


The Environment Minister, Orlando Jorge Mera , stated this Wednesday that most of the state works were carried out without the corresponding environmental permits during the past administration of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD) . The official did not specify the number of works carried out without the required documentation.

The minister expressed himself in these terms when asked about the judicial actions of the Ministry in the case of the Salto del Río Grande and the Estebanía-Las Charcas multiple aqueduct, a work that, according to the authorities, was executed irregularly.

Jorge Mera added that the current management has had to inherit this situation and seek a regularization of these cases.

"This government has made the decision that state entities must have their environmental permits . The most important thing in these cases is the lesson it gives us: that we must respect the law and legal regulations and (maintain) respect for the environment. environment," he added.

He added that in the event that "there was some level of guilt or that it is shown that there was some type of intentionality, that would lead to a legal investigation with other consequences."

Nothing surprising here. Another mountain of corruption to investigate.

There have been recent articles about the head of environment in Constanza being fired for supporting development for tourism purposed in the Valle Nuevo national park and yesterday for a developer clearing trees on a large area for a housing project.

They are working on reducing the number of open landfill sites too.

90 of 240 open-air dumps will be eliminated between 2022 and 2023


The Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources , Orlando Jorge Mera, stated that between this year and the next, 90 of 240 open-air dumps will be eliminated .

The same that operate in nine tourist provinces of the country, which will operate sites for the final disposal of solid waste.

Interviewed by the journalist Federico Méndez, in the program Spheres of Power, he assured that in the next few days the operation of these final disposal sites will be tendered, which will constitute a true revolution for the country.

“We have decided, between 2022 and 2023, to attack 90 open-air landfills that are basically included in the tourist areas of Puerto Plata, Nagua, María Trinidad Sánchez, Samaná, Miches, El Seibo, La Altagracia, La Romana and San Pedro. of Macorís”, he meant.

Jorge Mera said that within three or four months these works will be palpable, which will mark a before and after in terms of environmental protection.

He suggested that these places will also have plants that will recycle and transform plastics, to give them a second use.

He also assured that with this there will be less plastic in the rivers and in the sea, which will have a positive impact on the preservation of the environment.

The official affirmed that in a period of two or three years the difference will be noticed in that sense.
"The main source of contamination that we have in the Dominican Republic are the 240 open-air dumps in the country, obviously it is an issue that has been going on for years, it is not an issue that has been created now," he argued.

Jorge Mera explained that of the 100% of what is currently garbage, the processing plants will process 90% of the plastics and only 10% will go to the final disposal site.

"We are going to forget once and for all the word open-air dumps, it will not be part of our vocabulary, but what we are going to have are final disposal sites," he argued.

He said that fortunately the country has the Solid Waste Law, the regulation, the public-private trust of Sustainable Dominican Republic.

Actions against environmental crimes

The Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources revealed that so far this administration has brought more than 2,300 cases of environmental crimes to justice, whose actions have been carried out without any distinction of politicians and military officers of the present and past administration.

"In terms of the environment there can be no political distinction because we are risking our common home, we are risking the present and the future of the Dominican nation," Orlando Jorge Mera stressed.
He argued that in 2021 ten million trees were planted in the country and the Environment is initiating a process in the hydrographic basins to expand forest cover, with the aim that they can provide water in the next 50 years.

He indicated that Haiti is in the third place of the countries most affected by climate change and the Dominican Republic is placed in the twelfth position.

He exhorted the population to protect the sea, know how to conserve it and take advantage of it for the fishing of certain species.

Progressive closure of the Duquesa landfill will take between three and five years


Duquesa(in SD) is currently 80% controlled after the reduction of fires and bad odors, according to Environment

After a meeting of the Technical Commission of Duquesa with the Minister of the Environment, Orlando Jorge Mera , representatives of the Ministry of the Presidency, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the mayors of Greater Santo Domingo to socialize the agreement signed for the closure of the landfill , a process that was estimated could take between three and five years.

The agreement, signed between Environment, as one of the administrative managers of the landfill, and the IDB is the result of the work that the commission has been carrying out to achieve the technical closure of Duquesa.

In this sense, Minister Jorge Mera explained that through the agreement, the progressive closure and remediation of the landfill will be carried out, as well as the analysis of the new place of final disposal........
Guest2022
This afternoons headlines

They kill Orlando Jorge Mera in the Ministry of the Environment

See previous article in relation to the Ministers actions.

Clearly applying the law has provoked a reaction from someone or some organization.
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Yes this is seriously bad!  Apparently a large party was held celebrating his murder!

Things are escalating!
Guest2022
The murderer was a friend since childhood and that was why security let him access the Minister, but why was he allowed to enter armed? Apparently it may have been a personal dispute with heated words exchanged prior to the shooting. He has been detained.
Guest2022
. -Miguel Cruz de la Mota, the killer of the Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, is not entrenched in the official office, as has been believed.

It was reported that the man is in another place and that he has not turned himself in to the police authorities.

Fausto Miguel Cruz De La Mota was said to be holding several people hostage at the Ministry of the Environment.

They say that Miguel Cruz was like the brother of Minister Jorge Mera, son of a general of the Armed Forces in the government of Salvador Jorge Blanco, father of the ill-fated official.

The motive would have been the closure of a cement mine in Cibao, owned by the alleged killer.

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  To all others who might think this might be the answer to all their problems
Guest2022
Abinader is in favor of a campaign against firearms
The president vented after the assassination of the Minister of the Environment, Orlando Jorge Mera


Given the violent events of recent days, including the murder of Minister Orlando Jorge Mera on Monday, President Luis Abinader spoke out in favor of a campaign against firearms as a way to reduce this scourge.

“I believe that society, not only Dominican society, but also what is happening in the United States and in other countries; here, I think we are going to have a whole campaign against violence, against weapons”.

Abinader made this reflection after offering condolences to the family of Jorge Mera, murdered by his childhood friend Miguel Cruz while he was in his office at the Ministry of the Environment and Natural Resources around noon this Monday.

“It is a society that is getting sick, they fight over anything, traffic accidents, an argument in a bar. The world has to react, look at the deaths in the United States with automatic weapons, here also the people with weapons”, was the relief of the president with the journalists at the exit of the residence of the Jorge Villegas family.

“What does violence leave? The only thing that leaves behind violence is more violence, it's more tragedy,” Abinader asked himself and at the same time responded. He reiterated that society must educate to lead a culture of non-violence.

On the death of the head of the Environment, the head of state specified: "It is a very sad day for everyone."

On Monday afternoon, he issued decree 298-22 with which he declared the official mourning for three days after the death of Jorge Mera. He had also spoken on Twitter.

For this Tuesday, the president plans to travel to Los Angeles, United States, for the Summit of the Americas . But it has not yet been decided whether to go or postpone the trip.

Jorge Mera, 55 years old and son of former president Salvador Jorge Blanco , died this Monday due to the shots caused by Miguel Cruz. He was arrested in a church and is under investigation by the Public Ministry, which will present charges against him.
Guest2022
Death of Jorge Mera could be linked to denial of environmental license


According to the information obtained by this means, the defendant's company Aurum Gavia, SA, would have requested the corresponding permits for the export of used batteries.

Said company was supposedly engaged in the importation of new batteries, but it would have signed an agreement with a company in Israel, a signatory of the Basel Convention, for the commercial exchange of used batteries for new ones.

In July of last year, the Ministry of the Environment sent a communication to the company, supposedly returning the file because "it did not have the environmental authorization" and the "application was incomplete."

In addition, they asked for two other clarifications of interest on the procedure to be fulfilled: Documents for the export of Hazardous Waste through the Basel Convention and the results and observations of the review of the file.

Certainly the Environmental Technical Regulation for the Management of Used Lead-Acid Batteries, known as BAPU, prohibits the export of waste from this type of battery, but there are exceptions set forth in the same regulation, according to Aurum's request.

It cited that regulation in its application, saying that the company must show that the supplier of this product uses the used batteries as raw material or that they are contractually obligated to return said used merchandise.

After the file was returned last year, the Minister allegedly told Fausto Miguel Cruz de la Mota that he would follow up on the proceedings.

This fateful Monday, Cruz de la Mota, according to our sources, met with another person in the Ministry to raise the issue, apparently already a little agitated.

Allegedly not receiving a satisfactory answer, he would have said that he would speak with the minister.

The people with whom he supposedly met would have written a message to Jorge Mera, warning him that Cruz would go to see him.

The information we have is that the minister did not see the message.

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