Attention, Bulacan residents!

My apologies for missing out on our daily blog yesterday. I had to attend to an emergency in the family.

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This is for Bulacan residents.

I have received reports that as many as 10 out of 13 blocks of tearose marble transferred from a cancelled mining operation in the Biak na Bato National Park in San Miguel to the Provincial Engineering Office in Guiguinto are allegedly MISSING.

The marble blocks, which had come from the Rosemoor Mining, had been moved out allegedly without the required one transport permit from the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

For your information, guys, one block of tearose marble costs as much as P300,000. So at 10 blocks, we’re talking of P3 MILLION.

Hindi lang barya-barya, tama?

The marble blocks were moved out of the Rosemoor vicinity in Barangay Sibul, San Miguel on Oct. 23 last year, a day after people from the Bulacan Environment and Natural Resources Office (BENRO) inspected the site.

BENRO and the Provincial Engineering Office are both DIRECTLY UNDER the Office of the Governor.

A group of residents who asked not to be named also told me they are now verifying reports that Bulacan Gov. Wilhelmino Alvarado had written to the DENR to ask for permission to sell the marble blocks, purportedly to finance some provincial projects.

That is VERY, VERY DISTURBING.

I am not a lawyer but I don’t think Alvarado has the right, legal or moral, to se\l the marble or even think about doing so regardless of his purpose.

The marble was STILL OWNED by Rosemoor UNTIL THESE WERE MOVED OUT. Meaning, it was still PRIVATE PROPERTY. Therefore, Alvarado had NO RIGHT to just grab and sell the marble blocks.

He can only do so if the marble has already been seized in favor of the provincial government, for which a legal and usually lengthy process has to be followed.

Or if he will sell the marble as a private individual and with the written consent of Rosemoor.

I will readily stand corrected if I have to.

                                                                       

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From our blogmates:

VENUS AMORANTO of Binan, Laguna on our blog “Start a House probe on Garcia now”:

Continue the good work, Mr. Antonio.

DARLENE LOGAN of Louisiana, USA on our blog “Never, ever, underestimate women”:

Very well said, Mr. Antonio.  30