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Originally Posted by Keith R
Actually, sad to say, this was done with funding -- as part of a larger project funded by the World Bank. The project, launched in 1999 and finished a few years later, aimed at setting a grand national environment policy and priorities (institutional, personnel, training, monitoring, regulation/guideline setting, etc.) once the Environment Law was passed. Part of the exercise involved cateloguing and assessing what environmental problems the DR faced, which ones should be given priority attention, and what were the cost/benefits of the various policy approaches. The final product was not the worst I have seen in Latin America, but it was certainly not the best.
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True. How could they have possibly have know which to place high on the priority list if them didn't even do a thorough investigation?
Well, like you said, at least now they have the new environmetal legislation. In time it will be refined. Thanks for all the info. I'm reading Luis Pellerano's press release on it right now. It seems the law, from their view, is to stream line the environmental review process required for development.
So the World Bank funded this in order for the Dominican Republic to streamline the process, build up foreign investment, require all types of upfront environmental impact studies prior to development, and that's it.....
Is this correct? So everything will be upfront in order to get the permits, but once that in completed, all the pollution they create will be pretty much unregulated? I need to find more than just this press release....
http://www.bomchilgroup.org/domfeb02.html