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Haiti - Environment : 89% of quarries are illegal in the West 14/10/2017 10:14:52 Giving an urgent response to the problem of excessive exploitation of quarries of rocks and aggregates through the metropolitan area particularly Morne Cabrit and Laboule, was the backdrop to this important meeting which was chaired by the holder of the Minister of the Environment. In his speech, Claude Préptit presented an overwhelming report concerning the excessive exploitation of quarries across the country and the metropolitan area in particular. According to this report, on 140 quarries listed in the Department of the West https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-22394-haiti-news-zapping.html 89% of operators are illegal and have no state operating licenses. While recognizing the importance of the "Buildings and Public Works" sector for any country, Claude Préptit insists on the need to regulate and control it through a national policy on the exploitation, transport and marketing of quarry materials in order to to reconcile the development of this sector, the preservation of the environment and the rational management of natural resources in the country. Minister St. Cyr emphasized the importance of acting in synergy, stressing that this problem must be tackled through a common front of state actors. He announced that he would submit this dossier to the Council of Ministers in the coming days, in order to mobilize the Government to take measures to curb these abuses. The geologist engineer Claude Prépetit made several recommendations including :
These recommendations provided an opportunity to set out the responsibilities of each institution in this regard, all of which were in favor of government ownership in the context of strengthening management and protecting the environment. HL/ TB/ HaitiLibre
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