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.

Date

September 9, 2020

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Seares, Pachico A.

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SS20200909_7

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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 to be to be crushed dolomite rocks hauled from Cebu. Last September 4, Borgonia said the PB didn't know whether the hauling was permitted and would investigate why the local government has not been informed although the Manila Bay project is undertaken by the national government. The next working day, Monday, September 7, Borgonia retreated, saying the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) certified that permit was given for the ferrying to Manila of 3,500 wet metric tons of crushed dolomite. Grantee was Philippine Mining Service Corp. (PMSC), which has the sole right under contract to process materials from Dolomite Mining Corp. (DMC) in Alcoy, Cebu.

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Seares, P. A. (2020, September 9). 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. Sunstar Cebu, p. 7.