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EARTH-2026-0009
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DENR-EMB Negros Island Region issued a cease-and-desist order against Bacolod Bulk Water Inc.'s Bacolod-Murcia Sum-Ag Water Treatment Plant and its Caliban River water intake facility in Murcia, Negros Occidental, after residents of Barangay Caliban petitioned against the project. The company expanded its Water Supply Injection 2 project from a permitted 100 cubic metres per day to an additional 300 cubic metres per day without an amended Environmental Compliance Certificate, and had no discharge permit or permit to operate for its pollution source equipment. Residents complained the water they were receiving was dark, smelly and contaminated and feared the river would be depleted; EMB imposed a P70,000 fine and ordered operations stopped until the amended ECC is approved.
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Bulatlat · Apr 9, 2026
Visayan Daily Star · Apr 17, 2026
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EMB issued a cease-and-desist order and P70,000 fine against BBWI for operating the plant and Caliban intake without a discharge permit, permit to operate and amended ECC.
Recorded by DENR-EMB Negros Island Region
The order directed BBWI to stop its Water Supply Injection 2 expansion at the Caliban River intake until its amended ECC application is approved, following complaints by Barangay Caliban and downstream residents.
Recorded by DENR-EMB Negros Island Region
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