DENR clarifies Environmental Compliance Certificate issued to Aklan reclamation project | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines

DENR clarifies Environmental Compliance Certificate issued to Aklan reclamation project | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines


A suit is now pending in the Supreme Court.

Malacanang report:

"The Environmental Management Bureau (EMB) of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) today clarified that the reclamation project covered in an Environmental Compliance Certificate (ECC) issued by the bureau in 1999 included only the 2.6-hectare area on the Caticlan side, but not the bigger portion of the project, which includes the Boracay side.

This, even as the Philippine Reclamation Authority (PRA) confirmed that the 37-hectare portion of the 40-hectare reclamation project—which includes a portion on the Boracay side—has yet to secure an ECC. He also stressed that his agency will not issue any notice to proceed (NTP) to the project proponent, which is the Aklan provincial government, unless an ECC has been secured."