“The prospecting licence is an opportunity for the State to come in and do all sorts of things until we get our act together figuring out this boundary. But the solid core, the contiguous, geomorphological area known from the literature and early studies, let’s deal with that now,” the STEA executive director added.įailing that, Dixon said prospecting for bauxite in the Cockpit Country would continue. “If we can get that (protection), we can then negotiate the peripheral areas. “Let us lock that part first, put the legislation in place that says ‘this is protected you don’t mine, you don’t quarry, you don’t cut out the lumber without specific permit’ – whether you are a state or a private owner of the resource,” he insisted. Head of the Southern Trelawny Environmental Agency (STEA) Hugh Dixon said, in fact, that the process had not been necessary for the section of the Cockpit Country within the ‘Ring Road’ – an area that has never been in dispute. WITH public consultations on the Cockpit Country boundary now at an end, some stakeholders have questioned the value of the process and its likely outcomes.
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Petre Williams-Raynor, Contributing Editor Inside The Cockpit Country – Stakeholders Question Value Of Boundary Consultations ATTENTION AND SUPPORT NEEDED IN OUR FIGHT AGAINST BAUXITE MINING IN THE COCKPIT COUNTRY.NO IS NO.NO RETREAT.NO SURRENDER.