NewsWhore
10-20-2008, 02:10 PM
Minister of the Environment Jaime David Fernandez has announced that the small cultivated plots known as "conucos" in Los Haitises National Park will be plowed over, and as of tomorrow all sand and gravel extraction companies will have to get out of the riverbeds where they are currently operating. Fernandez has warned the sand and gravel extraction companies that he would enforce the law, and that anything found within 150 meters of a river will be seized. The minister said that the law is inflexible and that in the country where a lot of people know their rights, few know their duties. He reminded people that he plans to be in office for eight years, and told reporters that the resolution that orders the gravel companies out of the rivers is now over a year old, and last August a final grace period was permitted, which will not be extended. The minister said that he had heard that most of the sand and gravel companies had begun to withdraw their equipment.
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