{"id":146676,"date":"2020-09-08T06:18:53","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T10:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=146676"},"modified":"2020-09-08T08:15:12","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T12:15:12","slug":"antonio-marte-shutdown-the-sawmills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/09\/08\/antonio-marte-shutdown-the-sawmills\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Marte: Shutdown the sawmills!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Antonio-Marte-El-Caribe-e1599567264582.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-146698\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Senator Antonio Marte (PRM-Santiago Rodr\u00edguez) is calling for the Ministry of Environment to act now and close 32 sawmills that operate in the area of Monci\u00f3n in the Central Mountain Range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For years, environmentalists have criticized the operation of the sawmills. These were installed to supposedly dispose of damaged trees, but with time have become big business with large modern installations operated by the persons with influence in the past administration. Marte says the sawmills are a business that thrives by depredating the forests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Marte said that Environment Minister Orlando Jorge Mera needs to &#8220;take the bull by the horns&#8221; and confront the situation now. He is preparing a visit of senators to tour the affected areas. He has accused his predecessor, former Santiago Rodriguez senator Antonio Cruz of being one of the leading sawmill entrepreneurs in the country. In the first half of this year the media had carried reports by environmentalists of major irregular log transporting operations. The Ministry of Environment under Angel Estevez ignored the documented environmental reports. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/2020\/09\/08\/antonio-marte-pide-cerrar-aserraderos-en-la-cordillera\/\">El Caribe <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/video-denuncian-senador-antonio-cruz-continua-tala-indiscriminada-de-arboles-en-santiago-rodriguez\/\">El Nuevo Diario<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>8 September 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Antonio Marte (PRM-Santiago Rodr\u00edguez) is calling for the Ministry of Environment to act now and close 32 sawmills that operate in the area of Monci\u00f3n in the Central Mountain Range. For years, environmentalists have criticized the operation of the sawmills. These were installed to supposedly dispose of damaged trees, but with time have become &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/09\/08\/antonio-marte-shutdown-the-sawmills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146700,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146676\/revisions\/146700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}