The audit group validated that the dumping of overburden materials does not affect the close by housing communities as these are dumped in the accepted mining operation place some distance from the residential areas in Barangay Semirara,” the DOE stated within the audit record.
Semirara’s mining operation covers the islands of Semirara, Caluya, and Sibay in Antique.
Earlier, the Environmental Management Bureau (EMB), an agency below the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), said in a report that it discovered the organization in compliance with all required metrics meant to defend the surroundings in and round Semirara Island.
The EMB record additionally said Semirara Mning became fully in compliance with its commitments to the community on the island via numerous packages inclusive of schooling and capabilities training, livelihood, economic empowerment, inland and mangrove reforestation among others.
The company is the principle business enterprise at the island and has furnished its employees free housing, electricity and water, colleges and a brick church. Island citizens also experience those benefits except housing. They, however, get livelihood schooling.