FFOS: Maracas Beach Quarry 2016

To date, quarries on the twin-island state of Trinidad and Tobago continue to operate in violation of our environmental laws and threaten our dwindling freshwater supplies.
Help us raise awareness, influence legislation and encourage our authorities to act in the best interest of all our peoples. Here's what you can do:
1. Forward this video to as many people as possible. Let them know that quarries are operating outside of the law and not a single quarry has ever been prosecuted - almost as if our Governments have a vested interest in the quarry sector.
2. Write a short letter to the editor expressing your dissatisfaction at how our country is being mismanaged and destroyed.
3. Inform yourself. Read about the effect of siltation on flooding and about how salinity imbalances affect our fisheries.
4. Write to His Excellency, the President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, appealing to him to appoint a Board to the Environmental Management Authority.
5. The late professor Kenny resigned because of our previous government’s closed eye approach to quarries. Help us to encourage our new government to act in the interest of ALL OF OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS.
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[@nigelboos]

Gary, perhaps you might start an on-line petition and collect the responses from around the world, to present the results in Parliament.

[@vybz099]

Who are these untouchables that neither governments of past and present can put a stop to them!!!

[@kaseybutternut]

In the meantime - lets qualify what is meant by "Illegal". Firstly what is the approximate acreage of this you think for it to be a case? Anything >150 acres requires a Certificate and I dont know if this project is listed in the list of applicants www.ema.co.tt/natReg/index.php# - Secondly, if runoff is an issue the current Water Pollution Rules only specify for a few pollutants and which pollutants do you think would be applicable in this case? BOD, pH, TSS? Is there any precedence with studies to qualify and show the impact of similar runoff on Tropical fisheries? Thirdly, to what extent will a Board balance the current inabilities of the EMA and will the "Board" be able to take itself to Environmental Commission for it's own negligence of duty? I would like some of these facts to be included in the video description please so the matter can be better dealt with from within the "system" as well.

[@JaS-ib1cq]

next time get your facts straight is what YOU CAN DO