The Inquirer (Monrovia)
Charles B. Yates
28 August 2006
The Citizens Organized for the Protection of the Environment (COPE), will today petition the Liberia Legislature for the enactment of the Environmental laws of Liberia.
The group's petition comes in the awake of the numerous calls for the establishment of the act that will seek the well being of thousands of Liberians who are working in industrial companies that are vulnerable to explosive chemicals and other waste products that are harmful to the human race and the society at large.
According to the Executive Director for the organization, Mr. S. Roye Brown, he said that the only source of petition is the House of Representative, through the offices of the Speaker of the House.
Mr. Brown stated that his Organization, realizing the environmental hazard posed to the citizens and residents in places where companies associated with toxic chemicals are operating, whereas there has never been an allotment or benefit directly or indirectly for the citizens among other things, have deemed it necessary to submit this petition for Legislative enactment.
"We shall specify national strategies, plans and programmes for the protection, the conservation and the sustainability of the environment and to identify, prepare and maintain an inventory of all places where toxic chemical associated companies operate, among others."
Mr. Brown noted that for these good dreams of the organization to come to reality, the House must first take into consideration the passage of the EPA law.
It can be recalled that in recent time there have been numerous calls for the establishment of the EPA's Laws, among which were the Executive Director for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Mr. Henry Williams who called on the government for the establishment of a Disaster Task Force in the country, something, he said would be able to put natural or man-disaster under control before getting out of proportion.
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