Protecting the environment

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The Ministry of Environment has a denied a request by Cementos Cibao to dispose of coal mineral waste (petcoke) in the wharf in Puerto Plata. Through resolution 001-07 from 4 January the Ministry stopped the disposal activities because of the damage that the coal particles, plaster and petcoke (sub products form the refining of petroleum), produce. Diario Libre writes that Cementos Cibao has not even begun the construction of installations that would avoid the contaminations of their warehouses and other requirements like planting trees, placing a roof on the warehouse, the raising of a fence and covers for the trucks that transport the waste.

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