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Santo Domingo.- The country’s environmental movement yesterday rebuked the government’s pact with the alleged titleholders in Bahia de las Aguilas, Pedernales (southwest), arguing that it would create a bad precedent in the cases of protected areas and legal security.
"We do agree with developing tourism in Pedernales and throughout the South, what we oppose is that the government cedes lands that belong to us all, to individuals who have fake titles that are the result of a colossal fraud, "said of Grupo Jaragua director Ivonne Arias.
The biologist Luis Carvajal also agrees that the pact sets a bad precedent. "The government's decision is very regrettable," and complained that the announcement reveals a narrow vision on development.
The environmentalists said the government is lying when it says the protected areas will not be affected, noting that in the executive order signed by president on Danilo Medina on January 15, nearly all plots numbered 7-13 are within the national park.
"I do not understand why they lie on that basis that they are not in a protected area, because you just have to take the parcels and put them on a map to see that they are," Arias said.
Bahia de las Aguilas lies within the Jaragua National Park, which in turn forms part of to the Jaragua-Bahoruco-Enriquillo Biosphere Reserve, designated by the UNESCO.
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"Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into." Laurel and Hardy
"I do not understand why they lie on that basis that they are not in a protected area, because you just have to take the parcels and put them on a map to see that they are," Arias said.
you don't understand? this might help you. go to a new car dealer, and check the new prices for jeepetas.
They lie because they can.
In our culture, it is technically not a lie if you've conditioned yourself to believe your own fiction.
That is the reason why everytime anyone in gov't or the military or the judicial gets caught doing anything wrong they always make a proclamation such as this: "I am an honest and scupulous individual fully beyond reproach.....I didnt perpetrate this or that......and my detractors and enemies are clearly lying or needlessly prosecuting me". Yeah, right.
MJEV.
Environmentalists rebuke everything related to progress.
These self-appointed, guardians of mother earth won't be happy until we are all living in TeePees covered in hemp and subsisting on a organic, raw food diet.
Of course they will be flying all around the world in private jets & staying in 5 star hotels to make sure we are all complying.
NRA mentality?
Written by: RoyStone, 15 Feb 2013 6:20 PM
From: Australia
progress = environmental vandalism
NRA mentality?
because the little brain he was born with is permanently destroyed, he does not care about what happens to others. hey, the atom bomb is progress, too.
Yep
Athens, London, Rome, Paris, Moscow, New York City, Tokyo is environmental vandalism
Electricity is environmental vandalism
Farming is environmental vandalism
Medicine is environmental vandalism
the Internet is environmental vandalism
It is true. Liberalism is a mental illness.
Since its invention, there has been no all-out war between super-powers, since the outcome of a nuclear holocaust would be just too terrible even for the most chauvinistic American. As for fundamentalist Muslims ... I'm not so sure.
You stated: """Environmentally-responsible development is progress. The country needs Barrick Gold. It doesn't need more hotels and resorts since the existing ones are half empty. Bahia de las Aguilas is one of the few remaining pristine environmental treasures of this otherwise fvcked-up tropical island. Save it.""""
Irrational allusion to the NRA aside in preceding commentary, I can find common ground with your summary above. My father was instrumental in promoting tourism and resorts in the northern coast; sadly, he lived to regret it. The whole thing was chaotic, and the end result should really not have been exactly unanticipated. We must leave much of our natural resources intact so that we may continue to attract tourist in the future, lest we repeat the situation in Puerto Rico.
MJEV.
"Read the list of title certificates of the Bay of Eagles"
"Lea la lista de los certificados de títulos de Bahía de las Aguilas"
See how the usual Corruption Suspects are involved including you guess it Narco-Lie-onel!
SANTO DOMINTGO, República Dominicana.- El documento anexo, de 325 páginas, contiene la lista de todos los certificados de títulos y cartas constancias que se emitieron para despojar al Estado de los terrenos de Bahía de las Aguilas.
acento.com.do/index.php/news/48797/56/Lea-la-lista-de-los-certificados-de-titulos-de-Bahia-de-las-Aguilas.html