CA affirms kalikasan writ vs mining firm

THE Court of Appeals (CA) upheld its issuance of a writ of kalikasan urging a mining company in Zambales and other government agencies to stop cutting trees and levelling the mountain in Barangay Bolitoc, Sta. Cruz in Zambales.

The decision came after the CA’s Special Fourth Division, through Associate Justice Danton Bueser, denied the motion for reconsideration made by the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), which said the cut-and-fill operation conducted by LNL Archipelago Minerals Inc. (LAMI) for the construction of an access road within its private property does not pose any adverse environmental impact on Barangay Bolitoc.