The Environment Department said Wednesday it cancelled the environment compliance certificates of six companies, including four miners.
“I asked our usec [undersecretary] for legal to look at all the operations with ECCs which might inflict damage to the common good. That is also the heart and soul of the Duterte administration,” Environment Secretary Regina Lopez told reporters in a news briefing.
“We have cancelled six because of the environmental possibility that they would adversely affect people’s lives. There’s also the legal thing because they expired,” said Lopez.
Environment undersecretary for legal Ipat Luna said the government cancelled the ECCs of Mejore Wood Works Inc. for its project in Surigao del Sur; Intex Resources Philippines Inc. for Mindoro Nickel Project; Forum Cebu Coal Corp. for its Cebu Coal Mining Project; Cekas Development for its iron, copper and other minerals mining project; Eaglerock Mining Corp.; and Alltech Contractors Inc.
The department earlier earlier cancelled the ECCs of six companies and sent show cause orders to eleven companies due to their alleged failure to meet some of the conditions listed in their ECCs.
The companies whose ECCs were cancelled included Century Communities Corp., Austral-Asia Link Mining Corp., Ipilan Nickel Corp., Core Mining Corp., Lebach Mining Corp. and Donggwang Clark Corp.
