2 trucks of IDC with 6,500 board feet logs were temporary held by Casiguran Mayor Bitong

CASIGURAN, AURORA, April 29, 2011-The Industries Development Corporation (IDC) two (2) trucks with 6,500 board feet log on board were temporary held by Casiguran Mayor Reynaldo “Binsu” Bitong, Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Officer Menandro Alvarez, AFP, PNP and non-government organization in a checkpoint at brgy. Dibacong in this town last April 28, 2011 in a broad day light in the afternoon.

The trucks reportedly came from the mountainous part of Sitio Kamatis and were said to proceed at the log pan of the IDC when these were held in a check point and thereby allegedly for validation if the contraband were fresh cut.

Authorities are now conducting meticulous investigation if the logging firm violated executive order number 23 of President Aquino for the logging moratorium nationwide.

Relative to this in a phone call to Mr. Michael Ong of IDC reported that the said hot logs have a permit from the DENR and reported that these were old cut logs. “Those were old cut logs,” Ong said, adding that the logs they have seen in the check point were fresh cut from the base of the tree. (Arnel Turzar, CMN-DZJO FM, Baler, Aurora)