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Two geothermal companies were awarded the Official Seal of Approval by the Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources for their efforts in incorporating green policies across their business platforms to help protect the environment, officials said on Thursday.
The winners include Green Core Geothermal, Inc.-Tongonan Geothermal Power Plant and Energy Development Corp.’s geothermal power fields in Kidapawan City and Leyte province.
“The [winners] were chosen because of their exemplary environmental performance and for going beyond mere compliance with existing environmental laws and regulations,” Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said in a statement.
All the winners have not faced a single complaint at the DENR’s Pollution Adjudication Board in the past three years. As a reward, the DENR will relax its rules on the submission requirements for reports, automatically extend the validity of permits, and ease procedures in securing environmental compliance certificates for their expansion projects, Paje said.
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“The [winners] were chosen because of their exemplary environmental performance and for going beyond mere compliance with existing environmental laws and regulations,” Environment Secretary Ramon Paje said in a statement.
All the winners have not faced a single complaint at the DENR’s Pollution Adjudication Board in the past three years. As a reward, the DENR will relax its rules on the submission requirements for reports, automatically extend the validity of permits, and ease procedures in securing environmental compliance certificates for their expansion projects, Paje said.
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