FOUR Dump trucks, two owned by the Municipality of Consolacion, have been confiscated by the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (Penro) for alleged illegal hauling of limestone.

The Penro monitoring team and the Cebu Provincial Police Office (CPPO) conducted a checkpoint last Tuesday in Conso-lacion.

The four trucks were flagged down at Danglag, Consolacion and were seized after the driver failed to present delivery receipts for the hauling activity, which is a violation of the Province’s quarrying ordinance.

Glenn Baricuatro, Capitol consultant on environment, said that either for commercial or government project, extraction of minerals like limestone has to have the necessary permits and the hauling must be covered by delivery receipts.

The team learned that the limestone was extracted from the waste of a road opening project in Barangay Danglag.

Based on its records, Penro has not issued any waste disposal permit to any person or government entity for the hauling activity.

The four vehicles loaded with six to 10 cubic meters of limestone are now in the custody of the CPPO.

Baricuatro said they do not know where the limestone was to be delivered but they have received reports that quarrying in Consolacion has been going on for quite sometime already.

Capitol will investigate the matter further.