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10-13-2008, 06:50 PM
Environment Minister Jaime David Fernandez Mirabal has warned that this is the last week that construction companies will be allowed to use riverbeds as gravel pits. Five companies were granted extensions for their operations and these expire this week. According to Listin Diario, Fernandez Mirabal said that if there is any resistance to the closures, "a bulldozer will go in and wipe out everything and we will recover our green areas". Fernandez Mirabal stated that the companies are dismantling their machinery in Sabaneta and on the banks of the Yuna. During his statements to the newspaper executives, the environment minister said that he would oblige people to respect Law 64-00 on the Environment. The minister said that the worst damage to the water tables was being done in the watersheds due to "deforestation and poor land management".
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