Browsing SunStar Philippines by Subject "dolomite"

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    • Capitol's gripes against 2 dolomite companies in Alcoy 

      (SunStar Philippines, September 14, 2020, on page 5)
      [1] The provincial and municipal governments and the barangay (Pugalo) where the mining and processing of dolomite take place are not getting their due share in the profits of the enterprise in the form of taxes. Problem: ...

    • Cebu officials probe dolomite mining for Manila Bay rehab 

      JJL (SunStar Philippines, September 5, 2020, on page 2)
      The Cebu Provincial Government has launched a probe into a Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) pronouncement that crushed dolomite boulders from Cebu were being used to fill up Manila Bay’s 500-meter ...

    • Cimatu suspends dolomite mining operations in Alcoy 

      JOB; ANV (SunStar Philippines, September 26, 2020, on page 2)
      Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu on Friday, Sept. 25, 2020, ordered the two companies that supplied dolomite sand to Manila Bay to temporarily cease their operations in Alcoy to pave the way for an investigation into the ...

    • Crushed dolomite for Manila Bay's 'white beach': Cebu Provincial Board may look into breach of agreement, not legality. Extraction, processing, hauling of sand covered by contract and law. 

      Seares, Pachico A. (SunStar Philippines, September 9, 2020, on page 7)
      Cebu Provincial Board Member John Ismael Borgonia has made some noise over the report that the Manila Bay Rehabilitation Project was using fine sand to cover a 500-meter stretch of shore. The synthetic fine sand turned out ...

    • Dolomite extraction, transport to Manila 'aboveboard' 

      JKV (SunStar Philippines, September 6, 2020, on page 3)
      The Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) 7 issued permits to allow the transport of 3,000 metric tons of processed dolomite, or “white sand,” that was dumped on the shoreline of the Manila Bay earlier this week. MGB 7 Director ...

    • Garcia stops dolomite mining for Manila Bay project 

      ANV (SunStar Philippines, September 9, 2020, on page 2)
      Cebu Governor Gwendolyn Garcia on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, issued an executive order stopping the extraction and transport of dolomite rocks from Alcoy for the Manila Bay beautification project. Executive Order (EO) 25 ...

    • Manila Bay dolomite sand project, was it worth it or not? 

      Portugalete, Edwin D. (SunStar Philippines, December 10, 2020, on page 3)
      Many administrations passed without proposed legal action to Manila Bay which is known for its polluted water for years, the current administration made an action to beautify Manila Bay. The government launched the project ...

    • Mayor urges 2 mining firms to heed Prov'l order 

      ANV; JKV (SunStar Philippines, September 13, 2020, on page 4)
      Alcoy Mayor Michael Sestoso will meet with representatives of the Dolomite Mining Corp. (DMC) and the Philippine Mining Service Corp. (PMSC) to shed light on the dolomite controversy. Sestoso said the Provincial Government ...