Asian company Rong-An Inc has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for environmental authorisation to undertake large-scale logging in Berbice in an investment pegged at US$20 million.
In an ad in Friday’s Stabroek News, the EPA said that Rong-An Inc has submitted an application for authorisation to undertake large scale Logging and the operation of a portable sawmill within SFEP 02/ 2011, located on the right bank of the Berbice River and left bank of the Corentyne River in Region 6.
This project would entail the felling, extraction of timber and transportation of same to a wharf facility for subsequent barging, grading, construction of roads, skid trails, bridges, culverts, and camps with other ancillary facilities and the
