{"id":958,"date":"2020-04-01T10:02:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T10:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/01\/gef-project-to-be-game-changer-for-trinidad-quarries\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T10:02:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T10:02:33","slug":"gef-project-to-be-game-changer-for-trinidad-quarries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/01\/gef-project-to-be-game-changer-for-trinidad-quarries\/","title":{"rendered":"GEF Project to be Game-changer for Trinidad Quarries"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"metasingle\"><span class=\"postauthor\"> By <a title=\"Posts by Jewel Fraser\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/author\/jewel-fraser\/\">Jewel Fraser<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"excerpt\">IPS correspondent Jewel Fraser finds out whether a GEF-funded project can really help Trinidad and Tobago quarry companies be environmentally responsible.<\/p>\n<div class=\"featimg\" align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/submission.icrowdmarketing.com\/assets\/source\/users\/195\/voices-from-the-global-south-472x472.png?1585735287752\" alt=\"voices-from-the-global-south-472x472\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"meta_origin\">PORT OF SPAIN, Mar 31 2020 (IPS) <\/span>&#8211; A Trinidad and Tobago parliamentary report in 2018 made two disturbing observations about that country&rsquo;s quarry sector:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Of the 67 mining operators on record, only 6 were operating with current licenses;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&nbsp;The State loses large sums in the form of unpaid\/uncollected royalties from quarry companies.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">This unregulated state of affairs is also having an adverse impact on the environment since many quarry companies do not follow environmentally sustainable practices. But the government is hoping that a Global Environment Facility-funded project, <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iweco.org\/countries\/trinidad-tobago\">IWEco<\/a>, will change that.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\"> Alicia Aquing, Project coordinator with IWEco<\/span><span class=\"s1\"> believes a quarry rehabilitation project that IWECo is carrying out in northeast Trinid<\/span><span class=\"s1\">ad will inspire quarry companies to operate sustainably by virtue of lessons learned from her model site. It&rsquo;s a big challenge in view of the many problems plaguing the industry. A<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>white paper on the industry noted problems in<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>the sector ranging from the presence of criminal elements; biodiversity loss, stress on the natural<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>water systems and deforestation caused by illegal quarrying or poor practices; to the problem of weak regulatory agencies unable to enforce laws governing the sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> As for the 61 unlicensed companies, the Parliamentary report later clarifies that these refer to mineral processing plants whereas there were 42 licensed quarry operators in 2015 and another 46 operating under expired licences.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">In this Voices from the Global South podcast, IPS Caribbean correspondent Jewel Fraser pays a visit to the IWECO rehabilitation site to learn more about what it is doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<h1 class=\"section\">Related IPS Articles<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2020\/03\/zimbabwes-afforestation-challenge\/\">Zimbabwe&rsquo;s Afforestation Challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2019\/11\/africas-youth-make-land-restoration-business\/\">Africa&rsquo;s Youth make Land Restoration their Business<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">Tags: <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/tag\/373164\/\" rel=\"tag\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2020\/03\/gef-project-game-changer-trinidad-quarries\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ipsnews.net\/2020\/03\/gef-project-game-changer-trinidad-quarries\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>headquarters@ips.org<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/content-marketing\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Content Marketing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/extended-distribution\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Extended Distribution<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>headquarters@ips.org<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jewel Fraser IPS correspondent Jewel Fraser finds out whether a GEF-funded project can really help Trinidad and Tobago quarry companies be environmentally responsible. PORT OF SPAIN, Mar 31 2020 (IPS) &ndash; A Trinidad and Tobago parliamentary report in 2018 made two disturbing observations about that country&rsquo;s quarry sector: Of the 67 mining operators on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/04\/01\/gef-project-to-be-game-changer-for-trinidad-quarries\/\">Continue reading <span>GEF Project to be Game-changer for Trinidad Quarries<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/01\/gef-project-to-be-game-changer-for-trinidad-quarries\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-marketing","category-english","category-extended-distribution"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>GEF Project to be Game-changer for Trinidad Quarries - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/04\/01\/gef-project-to-be-game-changer-for-trinidad-quarries\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GEF Project to be Game-changer for Trinidad Quarries - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"By Jewel Fraser IPS correspondent Jewel Fraser finds out whether a GEF-funded project can really help Trinidad and Tobago quarry companies be environmentally responsible. 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